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SHOT
Unique ID: NLM-B4AF82
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Lead musket ball. Cast ball, with sprue removal scar and possibly traces of circumferential lines from the inside surface of a bullet mould with a lathe turned surface. The mass of the object, at just over one averdepois ounce, would be apt to a musket of military specification. A number of musket balls have been reported from the vicinity, suggesting it was an area of military activity - perhaps a training area rather than a field of conflict. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1700.
Diameter: 17.3mm, Weight: 29.35gms.
Class: Musket ball
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: 1
Weight: 29.35 g
Diameter: 17.3 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 11th February 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM21807a
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Maidenwell (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF3179
Four figure Latitude: 53.291777
Four figure longitude: -0.036126
1:25K map: TF3179
1:10K map: TF37NW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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