Record ID: WILT-BC9FEC
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead post-medieval incomplete toy cannon. The barrel is incomplete (broken at both ends) with casting seams on both sides, both trunions are incomplete. A possible iron firing plug is within the barrel.
Created on: Tuesday 5th July 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2016
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Record ID: WILT-319F5D
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An imcomplete Post-Medieval (AD 1650-1800) Toy Gun. The gun consists of the butt and barrel, with the stubs of an iron trigger mechanism which project both above and below the position of the lock. Some of the long cylindrical barrel is missing. It is cast in one piece with a groove along the top edge to accommodate the iron mechanism, mentioned above. The external surface is decorated with scrolls and curlicues of vegetal character. A further circular rivet runs through the butt of the gun, perhaps aiding in the fixing of the iron component along with the two rivets at the centre. …
Created on: Monday 23rd November 2015
Last updated: Monday 23rd November 2015
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Record ID: WILT-04BEC6
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post medieval cast copper alloy toy cannon. The cannon is 44.66mm long. There is evidence for the two central trunion bars which are missing. Also missing is a cascabel. At the breech end there is a thickened base ring from which the barrel tapers. There is a tiny vent hole on one side. From where the trunnion bars were, the barrel tapers slightly to a flared muzzle. Between the muzzle and the trunnion the barrel is decorated with a circumferential ring. Just before this ring two diagonal cuts have been made into the barrel making a hole 5mm wide - perh…
Created on: Wednesday 11th September 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th November 2013
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Record ID: WAW-EC9724
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-Medieval to Modern cast copper-alloy "toy" cannon of probable eighteenth to nineteenth century date (c. 1750-c. 1850). The toy is described as if it were a functioning cannon. The cascable (or cascabel) and the cascable button has a length of about 9.1mm. The base ring diameter is 7.75mm. Between the base ring and the first astragal, the vent field has a length of c. 8mm and the circular vent itself has a diameter of 1.9mm. This vent is sometimes referred to as a 'touch-hole'. The incomplete trunnions divide the first and second reinforce from the chase where the …
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2012
Last updated: Thursday 8th March 2012
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