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SHOT
Unique ID: SOM-B7BD92
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Small group of lead shot. The group ranges from pistol to probably musket shot. Several have evidence of casting in the form of lines and some also have a range of impact damage, from complete flattening to small flattened areas or indents. Given the range of sizes and small numbers it is likely this is the accumulation from hunting rather than relating to military activity or practice unless more come to loght in future.
1. 14.3mm, 15.90g, casting line, flattened facet
2. 8.3mm, 3.33g, no catsing line, multiple facets, grape shot plus impact
3. 11.4mm, 7.65g, no casting line, no unamiguous impact scar
4. 16.1mm, 22.46g, casting line and sprue, flattened band from being 'set up' in the bore.
5. 13.2mm, 9.95g, faint casting line, large inpact crater
6. 17.6mm, 12.57g, flattened into disk, possibly middle ball from multi-ball load.
7. 17.4mm, 30.0g, no casting line, no unamiguous impact scar
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 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 7
Weight: 101.88 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt 19262
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: South Somerset (District)
Parish or ward: Charlton Horethorne (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST6822
Four figure Latitude: 50.99649707
Four figure longitude: -2.45736534
1:25K map: ST6822
1:10K map: ST62SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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