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Description: | A post-medieval gun-flint from a flintlock musket. The flint is rectangular in plan and trapezoidal in section. The flint is tan coloured. It has short, sub-parallel, semi-abrupt retouch on all four sides. It is 18.2mm long, 18.1mm wide and 6mm thick. 2.54g.Record LVPL-25BC11 notes that: "The flintlock was introduced in the middle of the 16th century but it was not until the reign of William III that the flintlock became the main regulation firearm for the British Army. The knapped flint was used within the musket mechanism to produce a spark and would last between 20-25 shots before it had to be replaced", quoting Clive Bond, PAS Guide to the Identification, Assessment and Recording of Lithics : PAS, pp163-164.
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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