Record ID: OXON-09169D
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late post medieval possible toy pistol barrel fragment. The material from which it has been constructed appears to be something akin to spelter. It has been quite heavily abraded but the cross hatched decoration is still clearly visible. The pistol fragment is tubular with a perforated cap terminal, the opposite terminal is broken, but not recently. On the exterior of the barrel there is a integral scroll. Based on the material it is made from the object probably dates to the 19th century. The diameter is 36.1mm, length 30.55mm, total width 21.77mm thick, and the weight 18.96g.
Created on: Tuesday 13th September 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 13th September 2022
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Record ID: LVPL-B9D404
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Sefton
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead toy pistol handle dating to the post medieval period (c.AD 1650 - 1800). The object is circular to one end, curving and widening to the sub-oval cross-sectioned handle. The circular end in incomplete. The body of the handle is decorated with three raised ridges, each with repeating pellets along the length. The object have a dark cream patina. Dimensions: Length 58.9mm; width 27.8mm; thickness 11.3mm; weight 43.55g The shape of the handle copies that of muzzle loading pistols of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, suggesting a date of c.AD 1650 - …
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 19th May 2022
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Record ID: NLM-1953D1
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy toy gun fragment. One half of the cast grip from a miniature toy pistol, with moulded detail representing a handle textured with rhomboids, extending from a curved butt to the proximal edge of a plate with beaded border which would be next to the lock of a flintlock gun. On the hollow back a single strengthening cross-rib appears, with flat surfaces permitting this half of the handle to lie flush with its counterpart. Patinated. The antique form may be an unreliable guide to the date of this object, as novellas and games involving pirates and highwaymen remained favoured by…
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-F2CDD4
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval cast copper-alloy toy table fork dating c. AD 1600-1700. The fork has an integral pistol-grip handle and collar before a waisted shank and two prongs set parallel to one another. The patina is dark brown in colour with small patches of lamination on one of the prongs. The toy fork measures 63.6mm in length, 8.4mm wide, 3.9mm thick and weighs 6.67 grams. For parallels, see NMS-63F0CA and NMS-0EC6F2 on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database, and Forsyth with Egan 2005, 134, Type 3, Design 1.
Created on: Monday 14th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 15th March 2022
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Record ID: NLM-70E86D
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy toy fragment. Cast fluted grip from a toy pistol, with three pronounced grooves ascending from the butt. Broken in antiquity, patinated, including across the fracture surface. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1750-1850 Height: 31.5mm, Width: 26.1mm, Thickness: 10.8mm, Weight: 23.19gms
Created on: Tuesday 8th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 8th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-60492E
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a Post-Medieval toy pistol dating from about AD 1650- 1800. It has a barrel made from copper alloy with a lead coating and stock. The barrel is partially encased in lead although this is incomplete. The copper alloy tube appears to be complete although split at the mouht of the barrel. The stock has a slightly convex butt and tapers up towards the lock and barrel. It has elaborate moulded linear fluted decoration along both faces comprising a ridge on the top and bottom, with two ridges on each side. The firing assembly is generally missing although the position of the pin is …
Created on: Monday 7th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 30th March 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-54713E
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post medieval cast copper alloy toy pistol / petronel c.1600-1800. The toy that replicates the match-lock weapons of the 16th century is 72.53mm long with the barrel being hexagonal shaped with elongated sides and tapers gradually to the muzzle end. There is a break at the butt end that would probably have been a larger triangular butt, replicating the section that would have been held against the chest when firing this type of weapon in real life. Weight 15g.
Created on: Tuesday 12th October 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 26th April 2022
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Record ID: SUSS-F640D2
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MODERN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead alloy toy petronel/gun/pistol probably dating c. 1880-1930. The barrel, trigger and cocking mechanism are missing. The butt is extensively decorated with natural foliate and floral motifs. In front of the cocking mechanism is a circular receptacle to take a charge of powder. The barrel and the stock appear to be cast separately and are possibly hinged although iron corrosion obscures the mechanism. This toy has a dark grey patina with iron staining. Measurements: length: 75.89mm; width: 18.70mm (across the butt), 6.60mm (diameter of barrel); thickness: 9.4…
Created on: Monday 13th September 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd November 2021
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Record ID: NLM-3BE8C7
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy toy fragment. Cast one-piece model of the lock from a flintlock gun, comprising an oval or lentoid plate with a fixing hole at either end, one retaining an iron pin, and with a screw and the moving part of the flintlock and the plate which it strikes modelled in three dimensions, though flat-backed. This was presumably attached to a wooden model of a pistol, modelled closer to life size than was usual for cheaper toys made of lead alloy. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1800 Length: 46.4mm, Height: 31.8mm, Thickness: 4.0mm, Weight: 8.35gms
Created on: Wednesday 11th August 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 11th August 2021
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Record ID: SUR-FD9C46
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast lead alloy toy pistol dating to the 18th or early 19th century, comprising the lock plate, the flash pan and a short length of the barrel. The lock plate is incomplete and has a moulded flower design on it and two small holes at the rear edge, possibly used to attach the handle, now missing. The pan is circular with a central touch hole and moulded curlicues around the base. The barrel is 6.8mm in diameter and missing its tip. The toy would likely have been functional and capable of firing a small charge.
Created on: Tuesday 27th July 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 27th July 2021
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Record ID: NLM-EA2C80
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy and iron toy gun fragment. One half of the joining pair forming the handle of a miniature toy pistol, with a flat expanded end to its butt and with floral and cabled decoration moulded in relief on its hand grip. The cabled decoration frames an oval panel bearing an animal’s head: a horse may be intended though the appearance is of a camel. Rust stains mark the sites of two iron rivets attaching this half to its counterpart; one rivet is set adjacent to an integrally cast crossbar. The imaginative anachronistic decoration might suggest this to represent a pirate’s or hi…
Created on: Monday 26th July 2021
Last updated: Monday 26th July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Gainsborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-D59E0E
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kirklees
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval toy pistol dating from about 1700- 1850. It has two barrels made from a lead alloy body cast in two halves around the rusted remnant of an iron firing mechanism and trigger. The stock has a slightly convex butt and tapers up towards the lock and barrel, it has elaborate moulded linear decoration along both sides. An iron pin running through the body at the front of the trigger and a rivet through the butt stock are the only visible fixings for the assembly. Forward of the trigger on the upper side of the body are a pair of circular and concave powder pans with touch ho…
Created on: Monday 19th April 2021
Last updated: Friday 15th October 2021
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Record ID: SUSS-971FB5
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast lead toy pistol dating to the Post-Medieval Period, c. AD 1714-1830. The fragment incorporates a lock plate, the flash pan and a short length of the barrel. The lock plate forms a panel that is rounded at one end. At the other end both long sides turn inwards 90 degrees before curving outwards to meet, forming a semi-circular 'apse'. The panel is decorated with a lattice of closely set crosshatched lines within a raised border. Across the centre of the panel are the moulded block capital letters G R. There is a possible further letter or motif after the R wh…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th February 2021
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Record ID: YORYM-F04FD5
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead toy pistol handle of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1650 - 1800. The object is circular to one end, curving and widening to the sub-ovate cross-sectioned handle. The circular end has circumferential fluted moulded decoration and the handle has two pronounced ridges with a bordering ridge where the sides meet. There is a circular aperture at the circular end which is filled with organic material from deposition. The shape of the handle copies that of muzzle loading pistols of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, suggesting a date of c.AD 1650 - 1800. …
Created on: Tuesday 21st April 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 21st April 2020
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Record ID: WREX-ED803A
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MODERN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete modern lead toy cap gun in the form of a flintlock pistol c. 1800-1900AD. The gun is made in two halves and it held together with iron rivets. The butt is decorated with floral motifs. The trigger is missing. The end of the barrel is missing. There are traces of relief moulded sans serif lettering on the sides of the barrel which is illegible. Length: 91.8mm; thickness: 9.2mm; weight: 47.22g
Created on: Tuesday 21st April 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 21st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weston Rhyn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-973A06
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast lead toy pistol dating to the Post-Medieval Period, c. AD 1600-1800. All that survives is part of the lock plate consisting of a rectangular panel that is rounded at one end beyond which is a short length of the handle terminating in a worn break. At the other end of the panel is another irregular worn break. The panel is decorated with a row of raised circular pellets within a raised linear border. Two small sub-oval rivet holes are set within the lock plate, inside the linear border approximately half way along the longest edges, but they are not opposit…
Created on: Tuesday 4th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd March 2021
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Record ID: WMID-95C261
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval, lead alloy fragment of a toy pistol, possibly dating from c1600 and c1850. The fragment is broken into two pieces. The larger piece weighs: 9.2g and measures: Length: 41.02mm Width: 11.83mm and Thickness: 1.62mm. The smaller fragment weighs: 3.4g and measures: Length: 30.47mm Width: 13.49mm Thickness: 1.94mm. It is likely that these fragments formed part of the handle grip. The larger fragment is curved with a hollow middle and has a wave like patternation on the sides. The underside has largely broken away (this could be the other smaller fragment). Both frag…
Created on: Tuesday 4th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2020
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Record ID: LANCUM-31C347
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval lead alloy and iron toy petronel or pistol. The barrel and most of the iron firing mechanism are lost. The outer faces of the butt are moulded in imitation of a contemporary pistol. They are decorated with a low relief pattern of cross hatched lines with a lozenge in each of its compartments, within a grooved border. There is a lentoid plate on one side which once housed an imitation of a pistols firing mechanism. This area of the toy has two circular rivets in it. The overall form resembles that of toy petronels or cavalry pistols reported from London, where a 17th-cent…
Created on: Thursday 30th January 2020
Last updated: Sunday 3rd January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Cambridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-5BA7C2
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast lead probable toy gun dating from the Post Medieval period, about AD 1600-1900. The object may be a toy pistol or musket: a longitudinal slot and remnants of an iron rod which is in the barrel of the object might be a firing mechanism. What would be the butt of a gun is broken off. The whole is covered with moulded hatching, while a repeating motif of cross pattees decorates each side of the barrel. The object has a length of 31.01mm, a width of 8.10mm, and a thickness of 8.97mm. It weighs 7.38g. Compare the more complete example NLM-122C61.
Created on: Monday 20th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2020
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Record ID: NLM-E23408
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy and iron toy fragment. Cast lead alloy oval-section grip or handle from a toy pistol with a simple scroll running down the lower side of the handle, worn traces of relief, and the trace of a moulded scroll at its upper end. A ferrous metal pin of length 9.4mm passes through the grip close to its wider end, and the object is broken across the site of another hole of diameter 2mm at its upper end. Extensive traces of rust in the hollow back of the handle might suggest loss of further ferrous components, including another rivet and perhaps a leaf spring. The lead alloy is pati…
Created on: Monday 9th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ulceby Cross', grid reference and parish protected.