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GUNFLINT
Unique ID: SWYOR-22A1B4
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Three post-medieval/modern gun-flints from a flintlock musket dating from AD 1650 - 1850. The flints are rectangular in plan and trapezoid in cross-section, one face sloping more shallowly. The edge of this longer side has a notch in the centre on two of the examples. The flint is dark-grey in colour.
A. 34.1mm long, 31.2mm wide and 8.9mm thick. 14.33g.
B. 34.5mm long, 28.8mm wide and 10.6mm thick. 14.94g.
C. 32.4mm long, 30.3mm wide and 11.4mm thick. 15.30g.
Compare LVPL-5C5593. Alistair Willis (FLO, pers comm) adds that flintlock muskets were invented in the early 17th centuyr, but were not widely used until about AD 1650. See also Clive Bond, PAS Guide to the Identification, Assessment and Recording of Lithics : PAS, pp163-164'.
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 1650
Date to: Exactly AD 1850
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 3
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 26th April 2015 - Sunday 26th April 2015
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: PAS form number 2677
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Nottinghamshire (County)
District: Newark and Sherwood (District)
Parish or ward: Spalford (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK8369
Four figure Latitude: 53.21159167
Four figure longitude: -0.75861351
1:25K map: SK8369
1:10K map: SK86NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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