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TOY
Unique ID: NLM-3C0F69
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Lead alloy toy. Cast toy cannon barrel, with a broad barrel which tapers from a cascabel at the wider end, past a pair of trunnions and three adjacent steps, to a very slightly flared muzzle. A slight mould line is visible viewed from the side. The material would not be suitable for a working gun and there is no touch hole as this would require. A round section object, probably of metal, is jammed into the mouth of the barrel, its flat surface being visible 4mm in. The barrel is dented, but the metal is unpatinated. This gun may well have been fitted to a separate carriage of wood or metal. It is probably modelled at about 54mm or 1:32 scale, a size at which toy soldiers were mass produced from the later 19th century - William Britains, the most famous British maker, was established in 1893. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900.
Length: 63.6mm, Width (at trunnions): 16.9mm, Diameter: 10.9mm, Weight (probably with trapped soil): 24.11gms.
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 1850
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 63.6 mm
Width: 16.9 mm
Weight: 24.11 g
Diameter: 10.9 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 22nd March 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM25663a
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: New Waltham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TA2704
Four figure Latitude: 53.51733897
Four figure longitude: -0.08604425
1:25K map: TA2704
1:10K map: TA20SE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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