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Unique ID: SOM-EC322E
Object type certainty: Certain
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Post-medieval spherical iron cannon ball. The ball measures 57.2mm in diameter and may have lost a small amount of the surface due to corrosion.
Blackmore (1976, 392ff.) suggests balls of this size were fired from a 2.5 inch (63.5mm) bore cannon, the Falcon or falconet, which fired a ball weighing approximately 2lbs (907.2g). As this type endured from the later 16th century through the following century including the Civil War, with slight fluctuations in its diameter and weight of shot, a relatively wide date range is offered, c. AD 1575-1700.
Notes:
The ball was recorded at a finds day with no capacity to accurately measure the weight.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1575
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Quantity: 1
Diameter: 57.2 mm
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4 Figure: ST7647
Four figure Latitude: 51.22168559
Four figure longitude: -2.34504115
1:25K map: ST7647
1:10K map: ST74NE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Blackmore, H.L. | 1976 | Armouries of the Tower of London: Ordnance | London | HMSO |