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Description: | A slightly damaged cast lead or lead-alloy 'toy' cannon of post-medieval date (c. 18th century). The gun was probably attached to carriage, which is now missing. In the following paragraph the toy will be described as if it were a working cannon: The cascable (closed end) has a prominent lobed knop on the end - the 'cascable button'. This is quite big, bulbous, broken through at the end and has a diameter of 11mm. Below, there is a pronounced base ring (Dia.: 20mm). The 'vent' or 'touch-hole' is circular and situated between the button and base ring; there are no further reinforce rings at the cascable end. The barrel has a central reinforcing ring flanked by two thinner mouldings. The central ring projects the still complete circular trunnions. The total width of the cannon across the trunnions is 35mm. The chase narrows gradually to another reinforcing ring before flaring to a muzzle astragal, which is badly damaged and skewed now. The muzzle is open and circular in cross section. The muzzle probably had a maximum internal diameter of less than 10mm. Casting seams are no longer visible along the sides of the cannon, but they would have been aligned with the trunnions. The artefact has suffered a blow to the chase, damaging the overall off-white patina, but it is still (especially the thicker, cascable end, circular in cross-section. Forsyth and Egan (2005, 80-81) discuss toy cannons and suggest those that actually fired were very popular by the end of the 16th century, but the majority show features that were developed in 17th/18th century. This is one of the latter, probably dating from the 18th century.Interestingly, this toy cannon was found in a field not far from another, LANCUM-F9E628, which is of completely different shaped and was probably made from copper alloy. However, they both date from roughly the same period and it is possible that they were lost during play. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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