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Description: | A lead alloy musket ball of post-Medieval date, circa 1644. A prominent casting ridge and a small stub of the casting sprue are still visible. It is an oblate spheroid rather than being perfectly spherical, suggesting that the halves of the mould were slightly misaligned. The ball has a pale, yellowish-grey patina. It is 18.5mm in diameter along the longer axis and 16.4mm along the shorter. It weighs 26.61gm. The weight suggests it would have been used in an arquebus or caliver. (Harding (2012) Lead Shot of the English Civil War: a Radical Study.)
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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