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Description: | Iron Shot. Cast solid shot. The mass suggests this would be for a six pounder smoothbore muzzle loading gun. Shot of this weight falls between that for the Saker or Drake (5 ΒΌ lbs/2.4kg) and the Demi-Culverin (9lbs/4.1kg), which were among the larger guns for battlefield use in the English Civil War (Haythornthwaite, P. 1983, The English Civil War 1642-1651: an illustrated military history, Brockhampton Press, London [reprinted 1998], page 53). However, a survey listing guns deployed to defend Hull and its Citadel, of 1699, includes four six pounders among a total of 113 guns, and, of these, one was old enough by this time for its carriage to have become unserviceable (Howes, A. and Foreman, M. 1999, Town and Gun: the 17th-century defences of Hull, Kingston Press, Hull, page 142). Six pounders became more common in the following century, and by the Napoleonic wars were a favoured gun for the more mobile horse artillery. There is scant discernible reason why such an object should be deposited in the quarry where it was found, unless perhaps used to weight a sack dropped into a pool. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1820.Diameter: 100mm, Weight: 3.1kg (6.8lbs).
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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