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TOY
Unique ID: NLM-A7EFC5
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Lead alloy toy fragment. Toy gun. Hollow cast stock from a toy gun, probably in the form of a miniature musket, perhaps modelled at a scale of c.1:10. The wider end is now broken open, revealing the wall of the object to be 1.4mm thick at this point, and of oval section. The narrower end is solid, with a U-shaped rebate on one side and rust on the other, suggesting the loss of an iron component and a mechanism associated with it where the construction was robust enough to accommodate it. It is uncertain whether a rounded lug on the underside here relates to this functioning, or whether it is a melted blob. A pattern of oval leaves and fruits appears in low relief against a horizontally lined and bordered field on either side of the stock. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1650-1750.
Length: 39.6mm, Height: 23.0mm, Thickness (overall): 10.4mm, Weight: 17.13gms
Class: Gun
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 1650
Date to: Circa AD 1750
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 39.6 mm
Height: 23 mm
Thickness: 10.4 mm
Weight: 17.13 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 14th November 2016
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM34600
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: near Gainsborough
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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