Flintlock trap gun
Category
Arms and armour
Date
circa 1780 - circa 1800
Materials
Wrought iron and wood
Measurements
510 mm (L); 311 mm (L)
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Brockhampton Estate, Herefordshire
NT 832162
Summary
Flintlock alarm or trap gun, anti-poacher, wooden with iron handle, for tripwire with slot. With belted iron barrel, mounted in a two piece wooden block retained by iron bands, A military-style lock, circa 1740. With trigger bar for attachment of trip wire, the whole mounted on spiked swivel. English. This kind of weapon was outlawed in the 1820s. Barrel: Round iron barrel, with flared muzzle. Length 31.1cm Stock: Blackened wood stock constructed in 2-pieces that encloses the barrel, retained by 2 iron hoops. Iron peg swivel at the base. Trigger release bar. Lock: Flintlock from an English Pattern 1740 musket. Rounded plate of curved form with rounded cock; trefoil finial to frizzen spring. Retained to the stock by 2 sidenails.
References
Winant, 1955: Lewis Winant, Firearms Curiosa Bateman, 2007: T & J Bateman, Alarm Guns