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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 shaped in form with a projecting central knop. The barrel measures 39.39mm in length, 8.50mm in maximum diameter, 18.38mm in width at trunnions, and weighs 6.90g. 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). | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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