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TOY
Unique ID: YORYM-21F68C
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete lead-alloy toy musket of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1600 - 1750. The object comprises the tubular barrel and half of the stock.
The butt of the stock has been lost to a worn break. What remains is sub-rectangular in plan with moulded decoration representing different elements of the mechanism. The trigger no longer remains.
A narrow tubular barrel extends from the front of the stock. At the junction of the stock and barrel is a circular powder pan with central touch hole.
The metal has a mid-grey patina and is worn. The object is 63mm long, 11.8mm wide, 5.7mm thick and weighs 12.7g.
Similar examples have been recorded as SUSS-C53AA6, NLM-D49553, and SUR-9EB4AA. Parallels are also shown in Forsyth & Egan (2005), p.90-96.
This is a firing toy, and would have taken small powder charges. It is unlikely that it could have been charged sufficiently to have caused any damage, nor could it have been fired with any accuracy.
Ref: Forsyth, H. and Egan, G. (2005) Toys, Trifles and Trinkets: Base Metal Miniatures from London 1200 to 1800. London: Unicorn Press Ltd.
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 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1750
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 63 mm
Width: 11.8 mm
Thickness: 2.5 mm
Weight: 12.7 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: YMT : E05733
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Holme (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE9206
Four figure Latitude: 53.54259342
Four figure longitude: -0.61312843
1:25K map: SE9206
1:10K map: SE90NW
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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