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Description: | Lead Musket Ball. Cast shot with flattened circumferential belt from distortion or 'set up' when an unwadded tight-fitting ball was subjected to the initial forces of the detonation of a propellant charge. A flattened area at one end of the ball - as it lay in the gun barrel - is probably from the ramrod. Lightly patinated and abraded. The mass, at over one averdepois ounce, would qualify this as for a smoothbore muzzle loading firearm of military specification. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1800.Diameter (at belt): 17mm, Length (end to end): 17.3mm, Weight: 31.28gms.
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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