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TOY
Unique ID: NLM-1C81B4
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy, possibly with white metal plating toy cannon. Cast gun barrel representing the barrel of a smoothbore field piece of 17th to early 19th-century style with a bore of c.4mm measured at a slightly flared muzzle, with a pair of circumferential ribs either side of its touch hole and an elongated cascabel. A splash of white metal here may be relict plating, though it might equally be from a melted lead shot as would be fired from such a gun had both been in a fire. Further indistinct traces of circumferential decoration include those ribs close to the probably central position of a pair of trunions, now lost,enabling the gun to be mounted and elevated on a carriage. This gun is narrower than equivalent toys reported from London. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1800.
Length: 61.1mm, Diameter: 8.7mm, Thickness (barrel wall at muzzle): 1.1mm, Weight (with trapped soil): 10.87gms.
Class: Cannon
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 61.1 mm
Thickness: 1.1 mm
Weight: 10.87 g
Diameter: 8.7 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 13th May 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM22603a
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Burwell (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF3479
Four figure Latitude: 53.291028
Four figure longitude: 0.008851
1:25K map: TF3479
1:10K map: TF37NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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