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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy toy cannon of Post-Medieval date. It has a cylindrical barrel that tapers towards an open end that is now incomplete due to old breaks. At the centre is a raised band from which extend integrally cast trunnions to attach the cannon to a carriage. It has a small circular touch hole at the closed end positioned between two circumferential bands, and the closed end itself is dome shape din form, perhaps originally having a projecting central knop that is missing due to old breaks. The barrel measures 43.39mm in length, 12.12mm in maximum diameter, 13.99mm in width at trunnions, and weighs 16.63g. Toy cannons such as this became popular during the 18th and 19th centuries and there is the suggestion that these objects were working scale models of their life-size counterparts (see for example Egan, 1988: pp. 3).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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