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Description: | Copper alloy end-piece (also known as a tail-pipe) from a ramrod holder. It is a tube, with a rectangular perforated lug projecting from its body; this would have been for attachment to the wooden base of the gun's barrel. There is a decorative penannular transverse ridge around the body of the tube, opposite the lug, showing how much of the tube would have been visible. There are also four curious short broad grooves or nicks across the end-piece close to the rectangular lug and on the same side, which should not have been visible when the ramrod holder was fixed to the gun (compare SF7423, which has similar nicks possibly making the number VII). This object would have been fixed to the base of the gun and used, with at least one other tube, to hold the ramrod when it was not in use. 17th to mid 19th century. See SUR-5F0664, DENO-ED8501, SF7423, etc..
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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