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SHOT
Unique ID: NLM-135E6E
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Lead musket balls. Eleven cast lead shot (a-k), some with mould lines and some with flattened patches. This group does not appear to include shot which have been fired, so some distortion may arise from balls being crushed against each other in barrelled storage. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1800. These form part of a large assemblage whose recorded constituents to date may suggest a weight of about an ounce was favoured for shot. Research on the English Civil War by Glenn Foard has suggested a heavier ball was used with the musket, but evidence recorded by this reporter both for this site and elsewhere has consistently suggested the size and mass of these examples to be typical.
a: Diameter: 17.9mm, Weight: 27.35gms
b: Diameter: 18.1mm, Weight: 27.92gms
c: Diameter: 18.7mm, Weight: 28.38gms: markedly flattened
d: Diameter: 17.3mm, Weight: 27.72gms
e: Diameter: 18.5mm, Weight: 28.75gms
f: Diameter: 18.2mm, Weight: 28.13gms
g: Diameter: 18.4mm, Weight: 28.22gms
h: Diameter: 17.9mm, Weight: 27.68gms
i: Diameter: 17.9mm, Weight: 27.24gms
j: Diameter: 18.4mm, Weight: 28.15gms
k: Diameter: 18.2mm, Weight: 27.19gms: markedly distorted or dented
Combined weight: c.320gms
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: 11
Weight: 320 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM37119
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Sidney Sussex (Unitary Authority Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TA3010
Four figure Latitude: 53.57050486
Four figure longitude: -0.03833575
1:25K map: TA3010
1:10K map: TA31SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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