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TOY

Unique ID: LIN-FCDCA3

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Fragment from the handle of a lead-alloy toy gun dating to the late ninteenth or twentieth century. The fragment is flat and crescentric in the form of a snakes head. The head is roughly lozenge shaped set within a perimeter defined by a deep channel. The eyes are two round holes which go right through to the other side, suggesting that they were used to contain rivets rather settings. The body of the snake is decorated with incised v-shaped scales. The reverse is slightly concave.

The type of toy gun from which this fragment probably derives is known generically as a 'Gamage Gun', after A.W. Gamage, who ran the People's Emporium of Holborn, London, and was a major supplier of them (information courtesy of UKDFD).

Notes:

Found at the Robin Hood Charity Rally, Chapel St Leondard, Lincolnshire. 16th-17th September 2006.

Class: Gun

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: MODERN
Period from: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1890
Date to: Circa AD 1920

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 30 mm
Width: 10 mm
Thickness: 2 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 17th September 2006

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast

Spatial metadata

Region: East Midlands (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Chapel St. Leonards (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: TF5571
Four figure Latitude: 53.213458
Four figure longitude: 0.319744
1:25K map: TF5571
1:10K map: TF57SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

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2 comments

Adam Staples wrote @ 15:22:58 on the 29th June 2011. This appears to be a fragment of the handle from a toy gun, circa. Late 19th - 20th century. See UKDFD 3031 & 29654.
Adam Daubney wrote @ 12:13:17 on the 25th July 2011.
Thanks for the information Adam. I have amended the record accordingly.

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Recording Institution: LIN
Created: 17 years ago
Updated: 12 years ago

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