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Description: | Cast lead cylindrical powder charger cap, with flat base with two integral loops either side and a pinched rim. Used by British infantry musketeers of the period c.1660-1686 to fit over the powder charger's open end to prevent spilling their fine priming powder which would have been poured directly into the musket's priming pan. A cord was passed through the pair of integral loops at its closed end, thereby allowing the cap to slide up and down. Read (1988) illustrates a similar powder-charger cap on page 163, No.1091, which is dated to c.1660-86.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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