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SHOT
Unique ID: NLM-E9AC45
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Lead musket ball. Cast ball with a deep cut and a shorter cut across it, and lighter cuts; patinated. The mass, at well over an ounce, indicates this to be for use with a smoothbore muzzle loading firearm of military specification. Objects identified by this reporter as musket balls are those shot weighing in excess of one averdepois ounce, an arbitrary distinction from lighter shot and one encouraged by the circumstances of deposition of a large number [over 730] of such objects recorded in northern Lincolnshire. In this case, the ball approaches one twelth of a 16 ounce pound, a mass technically expressed as '12 bore'. This is the weight of a 17th-century musket ball as defined by Glenn Foard of the Battlefields Trust, drawing on both field evidence and documentation of the period. The surface marking in this case might have been intended to promote the spreading of the shot - which it has not, though it is not certain this ball has been fired. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1700.
Diameter: 18.9mm, Weight: 37.13gms
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 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 37.13 g
Diameter: 18.9 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 12th February 2018
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM38716
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: Low Burnham
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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