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Gunner's sight and level
    • Setting:
      Room VI
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      17th cent.
    • Materials:
      gilt brass
    • Dimensions:
      height 160 mm
    • Inventory:
      3689
    • Gunner's sight and level (Inv. 3689)

Gunner's level consisting of a small slit brass bar placed vertically on a curved base. There was a plumb bob, now missing. Was used to aim guns by placing the curved base on the cannon breech. Provenance: Medici collections.