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Description: | A complete cast copper-alloy toy cannon of Post-Medieval to Modern date. It has a cylindrical barrel that tapers towards a flaring open end with concave moulding, which is slightly flattened due to post-depositional damage. At the centre extend integrally cast cylindrical 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 has a projecting oval knop. It measures 50.04mm in length, 8.46mm in maximum diameter, 21.91mm in width at trunnions, and weighs 9.89g. 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: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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