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TOY
Unique ID: DOR-53055D
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete cast copper alloy toy gun. The toy is a model of a wheel-lock mechanism musket with a long sub-angular sectioned barrel, large powder pan and tapering butt ending in a large pointed oval knop.At the same side as the pan are two large integral rivets for the attachment of the missing lock mechanism. There are two holes in the underside where the trigger was attached. There also the remnant of an attachment for the missing ramrod towards the front of the underside of the barrel. The barrel and pan are filed with iron corrosion.
Date: Post medieval - c.1560 - 1700
Dimensions: 125.25 mm x 15.27 mm x 9.14 mm
Weight: 46.08 g
Ed Wood (Pers Comm) notes that the type of gun being modelled in this toy was current from around 1560 - 1650.
Class: Gun
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1560
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 125.25 mm
Width: 15.27 mm
Thickness: 9.14 mm
Weight: 46.08 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCMS 017286
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Poole (Unitary Authority)
District: Poole (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Merley and Bearwood (Unitary Authority Ward)
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