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Description: | A lead alloy musket ball of possible English Civil War date. It has a partial band of set-up; a flattened area with scoring from the inside of the barrel caused by gasses behind the ball during firing squeezing the ball against the muzzle. The ball also has an impact mark which is a pair of oval depressions flanking a raised ridge, with a projecting area of displaced metal to one side. The ball has a pale yellowish-grey patina. It is 17.7mm in diameter and weighs 29.43gm. The weight suggests it would have been used in a small musket (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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