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Description: | A lead alloy Post Medieval probable musket ball probably dating from about AD 1600 - 1800. It is sub-spherical with two opposing very flat faces, a projecting casting seam, and a tubular projecting hollow sprue. The sprue is 5.4mm long with a hollow tube of 1.9mm diameter in the centre. It is urrounded by a circular groove on the ball. One flat face of ther ball impinges on the groove. The flat faces are not concave, so have not been formed by contact with other balls in a multi-ball load. They may be the result of the ball being held in tongs while still soft, but they seem very smooth. The strangely shaped ball may also be half of a dumb-bell shot. The ball has a smooth cream patina. It is 20.3mm long, 17.7mm wide, 12mm thick, the ball part is 15.2mm diameter, 18.39g. The weight suggests it would have been used in a carbine, a short firearm used mainly by cavalry (Harding (2012) Lead Shot of the English Civil War: a Radical Study.).
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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