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Description: | A group of five small rounded lead alloy weight pellets, their collective weight being 2.83gram.The individual dimensions of each pellet is:1: Weight 0.72 grams Diameter 5.30mm2: Weight 0.73 grams Diameter 4.64mm3: Weight 0.49 grams Diameter 3.88mm4: Weight 0.54 grams Diameter 4.53mm5: Weight 0.34 grams Diameter 3.55mm.One object (0.73g) is a neat sphere with four circular depressions, one on each face leaving rounded ends. This looks to have been carefully made. The others are less neat, but all are rounded with facets.Compare SWYOR-21D072 and SWYOR-E809B3. Though sometimes recorded as Anglo-Scandinavian polyhedral weights, the number of similar finds makes it more likely that these are pellets fired from a gun, similar to grape shot but smaller, and of Post Medieval date. Compare examples of buckshot in Harding (2012) "Lead Shot of the English Civil War", for example, Plate 21. Buckshot was used for hunting throughout the Post Medieval period, as well as in warfare.
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