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TOY
Unique ID: NMS-D51DB6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Fragment of post-medieval lead toy gun: hollow barrel with ten transverse ribs at round-sectioned surviving end. The rest of the barrel is hexagonally facetted with a slot along upper face to the break. The two lower faces are longitudinally divided by a casting seam and have moulded obliquely cross-hatched decoration, with two projecting stumps towards the break, representing part of a guard and trigger. Length >31mm. Barrel diam.7mm. Second half of the 19th century.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1850
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 31 mm
Diameter: 7 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 12th September 2012 - Wednesday 12th September 2012
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 58096
Other reference: AMD092012
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: North Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Salthouse (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TG0743
Four figure Latitude: 52.944444
Four figure longitude: 1.079386
1:25K map: TG0743
1:10K map: TG04SE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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