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Description: | The artefact has been crushed flat but would have had and oval shape made from sheet lead alloy. It is wider at the top and gently narrows to the base. There would have originally been two loops on the side at the top edge, these are missing. The object is a thick covering of powdery white lead corrosion products.
These objects are generally associated with the Civil War. This would have been the cap that fitted on the end of a powder holder, which would in turn have been connected to a bandolier by two cords that also passed through the two loops on the powder cap (Paul Courtney, Small Arms Accessories of the Mid-Seventeenth Century). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1600
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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