Rights Holder: Birmingham Museums Trust
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Unique ID: WAW-EC9724
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete post-Medieval to Modern cast copper-alloy "toy" cannon of probable eighteenth to nineteenth century date (c. 1750-c. 1850). The toy is described as if it were a functioning cannon.
The cascable (or cascabel) and the cascable button has a length of about 9.1mm. The base ring diameter is 7.75mm. Between the base ring and the first astragal, the vent field has a length of c. 8mm and the circular vent itself has a diameter of 1.9mm. This vent is sometimes referred to as a 'touch-hole'. The incomplete trunnions divide the first and second reinforce from the chase where the cannon is incomplete due to an old break.
The surviving section of the cannon is 30.9mm in length, 9.3mm in width, 7.75mm in diameter and weighs 5.7 grams.
Notes:
The cannon is probably a working model and miniature cannon such as this example may not have been toys for children but may have been used by adults.
Class: Cannon
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1750
Date to: Circa AD 1850
Quantity: 1
Length: 30.9 mm
Width: 9.3 mm
Weight: 5.7 g
Diameter: 7.75 mm
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Other reference: 4332
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: SP1169
Four figure Latitude: 52.318995
Four figure longitude: -1.840046
1:25K map: SP1169
1:10K map: SP16NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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