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Description: | A complete cast copper-alloy toy cannon of Post-Medieval date. It has a cylindrical barrel that tapers towards a flaring open end with concave moulding. At the centre extend integrally cast cylindrical trunnions to attach the cannon to a carriage. It has a circular touch hole at the closed end positioned between two circumferential bands, and the closed end itself has a projecting cylindrical knop. The barrel has a bore of approximately 5.43mm and measures 54.19mm in length, 11.67mm in maximum diameter, 14.75mm in width at trunnions, and weighs 25.11g. 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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