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Description: | Two sub-spherical lead-alloy shot (musket balls) with small flattened sides. Part of a group of lead shot and bullets, numbering 80 in total from the same site.Dimensions:a) Weight: 32.04g Diameter: 17.8mmb) Weight: 32.05g Diameter: 18.2mmDetermining the original weight/size/bore of old musket balls, especially those effected by damage or in-ground corrosion processes is difficult. In the 17th century ball size was expressed as 12 bore, meaning 12 balls to the pound (of lead). It is rarely possibly to assign individual projectiles to specific calibres or gun types and in this earlier period c.1600-1750 there was a huge variety of firearms, imperfectly manufactured balls and due to the fact that lead and lead-alloys vary in weight.See DENO-E7E565, musket balls also found at this site, for further explanation on identifying different types of lead shot.See also DENO-EA39E2 for examples of shot from this same site which also have flattened cylindrical banding, but more pronounced. Such flattened areas are termed as 'set up marks' where the size of the barrel, imperfections in the barrel or pressure from the gases causes modification to the shape of the shot.(Information on shot taken from PAS 'Musket Ball Identification Sheet' based on "Lead Shot of the English Civil War: A Radical Study" by D F Harding, 2012.)
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