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Description: | Three lead musket balls and ten flattened 'discs', presumably respresenting impacted balls.The diameters and masses of the complete balls are as follows:17mm, 29.89g; 11mm 7.10g; 11mm. 7.13g.One of the two smaller balls has a sprue and casting seam visible, while the other only has the casting seam visible. The larger has neither of these features visible. Each of the ten flattened discs has a splayed perimeter. This suggests that the musket ball hit something hard and flattened on impact.These range in diameter between 21mm to 34mm.Their masses are as follows: 6.09g, 6.73g, 5.21g, 8.27g, 3.78, 12.50g, 12.29g, 11.71g, 11.88g, 19.64g.The mass of these ball suggest they would have been used in a 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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