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Description: | A lead musket ball of Post Medieval date, about AD 1600 - 1800. It has been totally flattened by high velocity impact leaving striations on one face, and is convex on the impacted face and hollow on the reverse. It is 23.2mm long, 17.3mm wide and 5.6mm thick. 6.81g. The mass suggests it was buckshot or a small pistol ball. It has a dark grey patina. See 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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