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Description: | Incomplete cast brass frizzen from a flintlock pistol. This was probably from a military-type pistol with iron barrel and brass furniture. The corroded remains of the iron attachments, probably the screw, have formed a skin on the back of the clamp. The clearance hole for the bolt was used to attach the frizzen to the barrel. The frizzen is part of the hammer, but the hammer section is missing, and would have projected from the broken edge at right angles to the existing piece. The hammer was used to strike the flint which was held in a clamp opposite to the hammer above the barrel of the pistol. The flint was struck against it so as to create sparks to ignite the gunpowder in the barrel.
Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 206, No.1444, which is dated to the late 18th 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: | 1700
1800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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