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Description: | Nine lead musket balls - numbered left-to-right from top-to-bottom. (1) Casting line around the circumference, not impacted, diameter 17.9mm, weight 32.58g. (2) Slightly flattened circular area, possibly the result of impaction or more likely of filing the casting sprue, one area of linear damage much like a cut, diameter 18.0mm, weight 31.62mm. (3) Two relatively deep v-shaped areas of damage, set at right angles - impacted twice?, diameter 17.7mm, weight 31.20g. (4) Slightly flattened circular area, probably result of filing casting sprue, two linear areas of damage (probably not due to impaction), diameter 17.8mm, weight 30.05g. (5) Prominent circular casting sprue and also casting line around the cicumference, not impacted, diameter 15.5mm, weight 18.20g. (6) prominent circular casting sprue, not impacted, diameter 17.4mm, weight 27.17g. (7) slight casting line around the circumference, with a small circular hole (c.1mm diameter) at one point, not impacted, diameter 16.6mm, weight 24.13g. (8) flattened circular area, probably due to filing the casting sprue rather than impaction, diameter 17.5mm, weight 29.86g. (9) faint casting line around circumference, not impacted, diameter 16.54mm, weight 20.53g.
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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