Record ID: SOM-6DC151
Object type: PATTEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval iron shoe patten of probably or 17th century or early 18th date, the wooden platform is missing. The patten has a broadly rectangular frame with attachments at the front and rear. It is rectangular in section (5.8mm wide by 8.2mm deep). The sides of the frame are wavy (indented in and out several times). At the heel the frame has a straight bar from the centre of which a tab projects up vertically before being bent outwards at 90 degrees into a heart shaped plate (widening towards the back with a central indent in the back edge creating two lobes). In the centre of th…
Created on: Friday 4th January 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 15th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Musgrove', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C1BE37
Object type: FLINTLOCK PISTOL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An iron trigger mechanism and attached hammer of a large flintlock pistol, possibly a Brown Bess lock (Noel Hulme, 1969, fig. 214, fig. 69, no. 5). The trigger mechanism is formed of two parts, the body of the trigger and a jaw screw, both of which survive. The terminal of the mechanism has two horizontal plates, the jaws, which would have held the flint. The jaws are connect together and to the hammer by a vertical bar running down one side. The screw runs vertically through the jaws adjacent to the side fixed by the vertical bar and would have tightened to hold the flint in place. T…
Created on: Tuesday 12th July 2011
Last updated: Thursday 18th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Croscombe', grid reference and parish protected.