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Description: | Six lead alloy objects including lead casting waste that may all relate to recycling or casting of lead alloy. While these pieces are not distinctly datable, they were found near other lead alloy items that suggests as an assemblage a 18th - 19th century date is likely. (See SUSS-28FEB3; SUSS-28D6E6, SUSS-288DC7)Object 1: Cast lead alloy circular piece with a hemisphere attached to a cone; probably a bullet. Others of similar shape have been found on the Downs (L. Barber pers comm) suggesting they may be deliberately cast in this shape rather than mis-cast. 14.6mm in diameter, 11.2mm thick and 10.15 grams in weight.Object 2: Lead alloy item, possibly damaged or mis-cast. Folded in half but flat with raised decoration on one side. The object is irregular in outline, at one end there is a projecting hemisphere with a rough central piercing and raised radiating lines on it. From this projects a trapezoid plate, tapering away from the hemisphere with raised diagonal lines on it. To the side of the trapezoid plate is a rough cast area of irregular shape, again with raised decoration. The decoration appears to be in the form of a pair of duck-like birds with heads raised with a tree or staff with branching top between them and other decoration to the side. It is not clear what the item was originally supposed to be but lead alloy dress accessories, badges and toys are all common. It is 23.5mm wide, 33.1mm long, 2.1mm thick (in unbent sections) and weighs 21.78 grams. Object 3 (on left in photograph): Rough cast piece of lead alloy , flat and irregularly shaped in outline with rough surfaces 25.4mm long, 24.2mm wide and 4.4mm thick; 11.68 grams in weight.Object 4 (second from left in photograph): Fragment of lead alloy sheet. Triangular with one concave curved side and one corner folded over. 27.2mm long, 22.4mm wide, 2.5mm thick and 10.17 grams. Object 5 (second from right in photograph): Rough cast piece of lead alloy, flat and irregularly shaped in outline with old damage on the top and bottom and a rough piercing through the centre. The sides are uneven and the thickest edge has a concave curved groove running down its length. The general form suggests a handle lug although how it was attached, and what to, is not clear. 21.9mm long, 20.1mm wide and 6.8mm thick; 12.94 grams in weight. Object 6 (on right in photograph): Rough cast piece of lead-tin alloy, flat and irregularly shaped in outline with smooth top and bottom and rough, broken edges. 27.3mm long, 21.3mm wide and 4.3mm thick; 11.54 grams in weight.
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