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TOY
Unique ID: SUSS-E46AB1
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete, Post-Medieval copper-alloy toy cannon dating between c. AD 1675 - 1800. The barrel is called a cascable and the knop at the end of the breech chamber a cascable button. The barrel has circumferential mouldings and a breech chamber with a vent-hole sometimes referred to as a 'touch-hole'. There are two trunnions or basal lugs for attachment to a block or stock that are circular in cross-section. The trunnions sat in the top of the cheeks of the gun carriage and enabled the piece to be elevated. The muzzle flares outwards and is slightly misshapen. The canon is similar to other cannons on the database such as PUBLIC-091D13 and WAW-44E267. It measures 40.5 mm long, 8.7 mm diameter (open end), 10.2 mm diameter (breech chamber end), 5.5 mm diameter (cascable button), 3.9 mm interior canon diameter at opening; it weighs 14.69 grams. Forsyth and Egan (2005, pp 79-84) discuss various types of toy canon; cf. especially No. 1.5 (c. late 17th-early 18th century) and No. 1.6 (c. early-mid 18th century).
Class: Canon
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1675
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 40.5 mm
Weight: 14.69 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 12th March 2012
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Sussex (County)
District: Rother (District)
Parish or ward: Westfield (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ8117
Four figure Latitude: 50.924063
Four figure longitude: 0.573993
1:25K map: TQ8117
1:10K map: TQ81NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forsyth, H. with Egan, G. | 2005 | Toys, Trifles and Trinkets: Base Metal Miniatures from London 1200 to 1800 | London | Unicorn Press Ltd | pp 79-84 |
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