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SHOT
Unique ID: DEV-0CF913
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An assemblage of eight post medieval musket balls and smaller shot dating to c. AD 1600-1700.
One larger musket ball appears to have been fired, with a compression and irregularity in its surface. The remainder appear unfired. They range in size from 17.9mm to 10.1mm in diameter and 35 to 5.7g in weight. The smallest shot may have been intended for handguns or pistols while the larger shot could have been used in muskets although their weight is slightly short. Foard (2008) does, however, point out that smaller shot would have been effective in larger bore weapons and that an irregular sized selection of shot is characteristic of a possible Civil War site.
Measurements: combined weight 148g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 8
Weight: 148 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st June 2021 - Saturday 4th September 2021
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC Receipt 019636
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Devon (County)
District: South Hams (District)
Parish or ward: Stoke Fleming (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SX8749
Four figure Latitude: 50.33006171
Four figure longitude: -3.58897325
1:25K map: SX8749
1:10K map: SX89SE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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