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Unique ID: LIN-5A3CCE
Object type certainty: Certain
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Three lead musket balls and ten flattened 'discs', presumably respresenting impacted balls.
The diameters and masses of the complete balls are as follows:17mm, 29.89g; 11mm 7.10g; 11mm. 7.13g.
One of the two smaller balls has a sprue and casting seam visible, while the other only has the casting seam visible. The larger has neither of these features visible. Each of the ten flattened discs has a splayed perimeter. This suggests that the musket ball hit something hard and flattened on impact.These range in diameter between 21mm to 34mm.
Their masses are as follows: 6.09g, 6.73g, 5.21g, 8.27g, 3.78, 12.50g, 12.29g, 11.71g, 11.88g, 19.64g.
The mass of these ball suggest they would have been used in a musket (Harding (2012) Lead Shot of the English Civil War: a Radical Study.
UPDATE 22.01.2016: Eight further impacted shot, three musket balls, and one plano-convex bullet have been found in the same place as the objects lister further above. They are, accordingly, added to this record, being part of the same assemblage.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1850
Quantity: 24
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st November 2015 - Wednesday 25th November 2015
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Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: TA1100
Four figure Latitude: 53.48501892
Four figure longitude: -0.32865096
1:25K map: TA1100
1:10K map: TA10SW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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