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Description: | Three lead or pewter sub-spherical objects originally recorded as weights probably of early medieval date, but now thought to be Post Medieval buckshot. The artefacts are about 8.7mm in diameter, with various numbers of circular facets. The metal is dark grey and there is no decoration. A parallel is known from Pirton, Hertfordshire (Treasure Annual Report 2004 No 127), identified as a Viking weight, or possibly the head of an Anglo-Saxon pin. Also compare SWYOR-A1D945.Similar examples can be seen on the Portable Antiquities database such as SWYOR-E0A6C4 and SWYOR-E809B3. Though sometimes recorded as Anglo-Scandinavian polyhedral weights, the number of similar finds makes it more likely that these are pellets fired from a gun, similar to grape shot but smaller, and of Post Medieval date. Compare examples of buckshot in Harding (2012) "Lead Shot of the English Civil War", for example, Plate 21. Buckshot was used for hunting throughout the Post Medieval period, as well as in warfare.
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