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SHOT
Unique ID: NLM-A80C88
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Lead musket ball. Cast ball with a flattened patch of diameter 9mm, either from a ramrod or from its inclusion in a multiple load, with the flat area where this was next to another ball in the gun barrel. Patinated, and with numerous tiny crescentic nicks, the latter possibly from light gnawing by vermin. The mass, at well over an ounce, would suggest this was used with a smoothbore muzzle loading firearm of military specification. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1800.
Diameter: 18.3mm, Weight: 34.74gms
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: 34.74 g
Diameter: 18.3 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 12th June 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM36584
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: Manton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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