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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy toy in the form of a petronel dating from the Post Medieval period, AD1600 - 1660. The barrel is rectangular in section and has a narrow, hollow bore with a touch-hole that would have allowed it to be fired. The barrel widens in width towards the butt, which bends away at approximately 45 degrees , then narrows and flares out, exactly as the full-sized weapon would have done . Below the butt are the remains of a rectangular trigger guard, most of which has broken away in antiquity and is missing. The outer end of the barrel has also broken away and there has been a second, more recent, break in the remaining section of the barrel, which is now in two pieces.Toys such as this are based on the match-lock 'petronels' of the 16th and 17th centuries, and examples with hollow barrels were fully working models. Similar examples can be seen on the database at references: LIN-1F0453, GLO-489057 and IOW-858155.
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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