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Description: | Lead Slug or Plug Shot. Cast cylindrical projectile with a cut across one end and possibly flattened by impact at the other. This form of projectile would form part of a multiple load fired from a smoothbore weapon to increase the chance of a hit (Harding, D.F. 2012, plate 80). Such projectiles were probably individually produced by their users. The diameter of this piece may suggest it was intended for use in a pistol or carbine of military specification. The cutting of one end may also have been intended to increase the lethality of a penetrating hit, as with the later 'dum dum' bullet, but the position of impact damage suggests the slug was loaded with this feature at the back of the slug as it lay in the gun barrel. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1800.Diameter: 13.9mm, Length: 19.5mm, Weight: 23.79gms.
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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