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SHOT
Unique ID: NLM-8DA9C8
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Lead musket ball. Cast ball with three adjacent flattened patches of diameter 7.5mm, possibly from use of a ramrod; patinated. The mass, at over an ounce, may suggest this to be for use with a smoothbore muzzle loading firearm of military specification. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1800.
Diameter: 17.9mm, Weight: 30.24gms
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: 30.24 g
Diameter: 17.9 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 9th April 2016
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM32112
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Burwell
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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