Record ID: LEIC-8CE383
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval lead-alloy toy 'hornbook' fragment, 37mm long, 34mm wide and 1.5mm thick, in fair condition with a grey patina and weighing 11.22g. The object is roughly triangular in form, but would have been rectangular when complete, and has raised letters on its surface; those visible are the tail end of the alphabet. The uppermost visible line reads ...opq (apparently in lower case), and the line below reads ...TVW. The lowest line, which is complete, reads XYZ and then appears to have some space-filling lines and zig-zags. The fragment has transverse ridges across its original edg…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 18th December 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-C5C976
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early post-medieval lead-alloy toy 'hornbook', sub-rectangular in form and rectangular in cross-section. It appears to have been roughly cast and has one rounded end. It is decorated with raised letters spelling out the alphabet, with a missing letter J suggesting a pre-1700 date. The reverse has a raised image of a long narrow face and neck, with dots for eyes, a long line for a nose, with a possible moustache or badly executed mouth. It appears to be wearing a rounded hat or possible crown consisting of two lines, one above the other, the lower one slightly indented in the centre an…
Created on: Monday 20th April 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 18th December 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-E24E74
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval/early Post Medieval copper alloy miniature cauldron, 25mm long, 20mm wide and 13mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 12.43 grams. It consists of a spherical body with lipped rim above two sub triangular handles. It sits on three long, circular sectioned legs. Numerous examples of miniature domestic utensils have been found in London (see Egan and Forsyth 2005). The London examples of cauldrons (ibid. 111-115) date from the 14th to 17th centuries. A similar example is recorded at SWYOR-7C0C95
Created on: Thursday 26th May 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 27th May 2020
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Record ID: LEIC-9DDBB4
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy toy Petronel, 91mm long, 23mm wide and 8mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 23.25grams. The object is sub- rectangular in form and section and consists of a long hexagonal sectioned barrel which has double incised bands down its length. This attaches to a tapering breech which holds a large circular ring enclosing a hole on one side (for adding powder?) with a rectangular loop/trigger guard below. The object has a triangular shaped stock and is decorated all over its surface with incised circles.
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 21st September 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-805386
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Post Medieval lead plaque, 38mm long, 37mm wide and 3mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 28.8g. It is rectangular in form with a small flat rectangular projection in the centre of one edge, presumably part of a handle. The object is decorated on its reverse with blocks of raised lattice work, one at each side and a further one on the projection. Its front surface contains an asterisk followed by the alphabet (minus a J) in raised letters over four lines. These objects are similar to the wood and horn 'hornbooks' that are thought to be study aids, but are much…
Created on: Friday 14th October 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 18th December 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-FB51F5
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval copper alloy toy gun, 87mm long, 16mm wide and 8mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 18.55grams. The object is in the form of a rifle? and has two thin shafts protruding from its underside, the remains of a rectangular trigger guard. Close to this on one side is a circular raised hole, a touch hole for firing.
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2009
Last updated: Thursday 8th April 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-413375
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A Post-Medieval to Modern pewter toy whistle, dating to AD 1875 - 1925. This record has been ammended to be a toy whistle from the late 19th to early 20th century. Post medieval pewter tobacco pipe bowl, 31mm long, 22mm wide and 17mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 19grams. It consists of a rounded bowl with a pointed base. It has part of a circular stem emerging from one side which appears complete and must have had a stem of another material fitted into it. It is decorated with raised moulded swags and dots arranged in a repeating pattern. Metal pipes are not …
Created on: Thursday 13th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2020
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Record ID: LEIC-289261
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval lead alloy toy soldier, 26mm long, 26mm wide and 5mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 10.54grams. The object consists of the body of a horse, minus legs, with an 18th C perid officer riding with sword drawn. The object is solid and fairly flat.
Created on: Monday 24th August 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd June 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-3D8682
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post medieval copper-alloy miniature / toy musket (gun), dating to AD 1600 - 1640. The object is cast in one piece with a long barrel. On one side is a circular reservoir where the gunpowder would have been loaded. Below this is the trigger guard that runs to the barrel, this now being worn and broken, with only a small part of each end remaining. The stock is angled down from the rear of the barrel and terminates in a flaring 'fish-tail' butt. Several similar toy muskets have been recorded on the PAS database. These includeWMID-7D47A2 and WREX-558BB3, DEV-56F8EB, LANCUM-8D4201. L…
Created on: Friday 18th September 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 12th May 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-85DFA5
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy toy cannon, 44mm in length, 15mm wide and 9mm thick with a weight of 11.49grams. The object is a typical cannon, circular in cross section and rectangular in form with tapering barrel. It has two circular cross sectioned projections which would have supported the cannon. One has part of a supporting framework still attached, consisting of a flat sheet with two circular loops attached, one holding the cannon.. LANCUM-B5FE32 notes ' Many of these cannons were fired and are often found with exploded barrels from mis-fires. There are good parallels on t…
Created on: Tuesday 30th April 2019
Last updated: Friday 17th May 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-EDE385
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy toy musket, 76mm long and 19mm wide with a weight of 18.83grams. The barrel, which is decorated in wavy lines formed of incised dots, has a sub-oval cross section and widens towards the handle. This has a downward-angle with a pentagonal cross section and tapers towards a wider 'fishtail' butt. The sub-rectangular trigger guard (there is no trigger) is located on the underside, straddling the handle and butt. At the handle end of the barrel is a circular pan for the priming powder and, in front of this, a rectangular moulding. See BH-C38D1C for a go…
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2017
Last updated: Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Record ID: LEIC-9198D3
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy toy petronel. 98mm in length, 16mm wide and 10mm thick with a weight of 46.8grams. The barrel is incomplete and octagonal in cross section. When viewed in profile, the butt of the gun is formed from an elongated triangle, which is rectangular in section, and ends in an egg shaped, faceted terminal. The butt extends to run parallel with the barrel of the gun, for about half the barrels length. At the point where its stops there are two damaged 'C' shaped flat plates attached with a screw on one side (one of these would presumably move backwards to light the p…
Created on: Wednesday 15th March 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th March 2017
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Record ID: LEIC-4077F9
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval lead alloy object fragment, 44 mm long, 16 mm wide and 7 mm thick with a weight of 14.86g. The object is rectangular in form and cross section and may be part of a toy rifle? It has a sub rectangular plain shaft for two-thirds of its length. It then widens out and narrows in thickness to form a sub triangular terminal which is decorated with raised cross hatched lines contained in a raised border which is rounded on the shaft.
Created on: Monday 25th February 2019
Last updated: Monday 25th February 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-41905F
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy miniature cauldron, 19mm in length, 18mm wide and 4mm thick with a weight of 6.29grams. The object is sub-spherical in form and cross section and consists of a rounded vessel with a flared rim. Emerging from the underside of the rim are two small circular cross-sectioned, rounded handles. The cauldron has two complete legs which are plain and sub-circular in cross section. The third leg is missing having been broken off. Numerous examples of miniature domestic utensils have been found in London (see Egan and Forsyth 2005). The London examples of cauldrons (ibid. …
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
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Record ID: LEIC-EBAEF7
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval or post medieval copper alloy miniature skillet, 39mm long, 23mm wide and 18mm thick with a weight of 16.49grams. The object consists of a plain spherical bowl which has an outward flaring wide rim. It has a long handle with a D shaped cross-sectioned which emerges from just under the rim. This terminates with a rounded edge and a semi-circular depression in its flat upper surface, possibly suggesting it originally terminated in a suspension loop? The base of the bowl has the remains of three plain triangular cross sectioned legs, one of which is mostly intact. The objec…
Created on: Tuesday 8th March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
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Record ID: LEIC-E4370B
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post medieval copper alloy miniature cauldron, Length 34mm, width 42mm, rim 29mm,weight 50.67grams. The object is sub-spherical in form and cross section and consists of a rounded vessel with a flared plain rim. Emerging from the underside of the rim are two small circular cross-sectioned, rounded handles. The cauldron has two complete and one incomplete legs which are plain and circular in cross section. The object is paralleled in LEIC-E2A3A6. Numerous examples of miniature domestic utensils have been found in London (see Egan and Forsyth 2005). The London examples of ca…
Created on: Thursday 7th July 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
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