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SHOT
Unique ID: NLM-C61F10
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Lead musket ball. Cast ball with a saltire scratched deeply in its surface, and with adjacent impact damage from a hard target. The mass, at about one ounce, would qualify this for use with a smoothbore muzzle loading firearm of military specification. The scratched surface might represent a half-hearted attempt to increase the lethality of the ball, or may even be a graffito added by a Scottish soldier - most likely in the service of Parliament - in a time honoured tradition of adding messages to missiles. A fort at Alkborough saw action in the English Civil War (1642-1651). Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1800.
Diameter: 17.0mm, Weight: 28.20gms.
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 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 28.2 g
Diameter: 17 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 25th April 2015
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM28717
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Alkborough
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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