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Description: | Copper alloy, possibly with white metal platingToy Cannon. Cast gun barrel representing the barrel of a smoothbore field piece of 17th to early 19th-century style with a bore of c.4mm measured at a slightly flared muzzle, with a pair of circumferential ribs either side of its touch hole and an elongated cascabel. A splash of white metal here may be relict plating, though it might equally be from a melted lead shot as would be fired from such a gun had both been in a fire. Further indistinct traces of circumferential decoration include those ribs close to the probably central position of a pair of trunions, now lost,enabling the gun to be mounted and elevated on a carriage. This gun is narrower than equivalent toys reported from London. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1800.Length: 61.1mm, Diameter: 8.7mm, Thickness (barrel wall at muzzle): 1.1mm, Weight (with trapped soil): 10.87gms.
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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