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SHOTGUN
Unique ID: NLM-AF3931
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy and iron shotgun component. Copper alloy mechanism comprising a kinked rectangular section bar with a flat oval plate and another two objects, one lost, attached to it by steel spindles passing through lugs permitting them to pivot. One end of the bar has a drilled hole of diameter 1.9mm; the other has a discoid plano-convex plate with concentric circles on its convex side. The finder kindly identifies this as part of the release mechanism from a gun. Suggested date: Post-Medieval to Modern, 1850-1950.
Length: 66mm, Width: 11.8mm, Thickness (bar): 2.3mm, Weight: 12.62gms.
Class: Mechanism
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1850
Date to: Circa AD 1950
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 66 mm
Width: 11.8 mm
Thickness: 2.3 mm
Weight: 12.62 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 26th February 2015
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM28185
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Wharton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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