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Description: | Complete post-medieval end-piece from a ramrod holder (also called a tail-piece). It consists of a tube with integral, external pierced lug and small pointed oval aperture near a straight end, and a larger, rectangular hole flanked by ribbed mouldings on the opposite side, the other end continuing into an elongated, pointed, nib-like terminal. The lug would have served to fix the end-piece to the wooden base of the barrel (the stock) of the gun; the hole in the lug is filled with iron. The rectangular aperture was probably there in order to help remove a stuck or broken ramrod.Length 73mm. External diameter 11mm. Internal diameter 8 - 10mm. An object of similar size and shape, but with engraved and moulded decoration and lacking both apertures, has been found at Thornham (HER 45403), and a fragment at Pulham Market (HER 22622). Also compare SUR-CE7353, which has a fragment of wooden ramrod still stuck within it. 17th to mid 19th century.
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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