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Unique ID: SF-61B115
Object type certainty: Certain
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A complete cast copper-alloy toy cannon of Post-Medieval date. It has a cylindrical barrel that tapers towards a flaring open end with concave moulding. At the centre extend integrally cast cylindrical trunnions to attach the cannon to a carriage. It has a circular touch hole at the closed end positioned between two circumferential bands, and the closed end itself has a projecting cylindrical knop. The barrel has a bore of approximately 5.43mm and measures 54.19mm in length, 11.67mm in maximum diameter, 14.75mm in width at trunnions, and weighs 25.11g. 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).
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Quantity: 1
Length: 54.19 mm
Width: 14.75 mm
Weight: 25.11 g
Diameter: 11.67 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st May 2012
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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