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Description: | Cast copper alloy tubular tail pipe for a ramrod on a musket. There is a long curved tapering terminal with moulded decoration at one end of the tube; then a perforated rectangular lug for attachment to the lower side of the stock towards the other end, followed by an oval sectioned perforation, then a circular perforation (broken)on the opposite side, before the plain terminal. Length 88.50mm, width (across start of long terminal) 12.48mm, diameter 10.1mm, weight 16.62g.
This would have secured the end of a ramrod below the stock of a musket, in front of the trigger mechanism.
See SUR-CE7353 for another example, also Williams in 'Surrey Arch Coll' vol 88, 2001, Finds from Surrey 1997-9, p328, Fig 13, no.123. | 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: | 1750
1850 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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