Record ID: NARC-8789F2
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead or lead alloy Shot of Post-Medieval date (AD 1600-1800). The object is spherical. There is circumferentially running casting seam. There is damage in the form of numerous shallow indentations. The metal is cream in colour with a slightly pitted patina. The weight of the ball suggests that it is buckshot DF Harding, 2012, Lead Shot of the English Civil War: A Radical study Foresight Publications, London Diameter: 10.74mm, Weight: 6.8g.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2018
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Record ID: NARC-8777BE
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead or lead alloy Shot of Post-Medieval date (AD 1600-1800). The object is spherical. There is circumferentially running casting seam. The metal is cream in colour with a slightly pitted patina. The weight of the ball suggests that it was meant to be fired from a pistol DF Harding, 2012, Lead Shot of the English Civil War: A Radical study Foresight Publications, London Diameter: 12.33mm, Weight: 10.1g.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2018
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Record ID: NARC-876C48
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead or lead alloy Shot of Post-Medieval date (AD 1600-1800). The object is spherical.. The object has a large circular indentation from a casting spru and a circumferentially running casting seam. The metal is cream in colour with a slightly pitted patina. The weight of the ball suggests that it was meant to be fired from a pistol DF Harding, 2012, Lead Shot of the English Civil War: A Radical study Foresight Publications, London Diameter: 11.49mm, Weight: 9.5g.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2018
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Record ID: NARC-875E6B
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead or lead alloy Shot of Post-Medieval date (AD 1600-1800). The object is spherical. The object has a distorted form and appears elongated. The object has a large casting spru and has numerous depressions across the surface The metal is cream in colour with a slightly pitted patina. The weight of the ball suggests that it was meant to be fired from a pistol DF Harding, 2012, Lead Shot of the English Civil War: A Radical study Foresight Publications, London Diameter: 16.95mm, Weight: 13.0g.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2018
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Record ID: LVPL-86FF84
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy musket ball of post-medieval date. The object is spherical in plan and has a visible casting seem running around its circumference. The object is powdery white in colour and is embedded with black crystallised fragments. The object has been flattened in three places indicating that it may have impacted on another object.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2019
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Record ID: LVPL-86DE3B
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead-alloy musket ball of post-medieval date. The object is spherical in plan and has a visible casting seam around the circumfrence. It is powdery white in colour and has a visible spru.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2019
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Record ID: LVPL-869CBA
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy musket ball of post-medieval date. The object is spherical in plan and has a visible casting seem running around its circumfrence. The object has a smooth light white patina and is nicked in places. There is no visible spru. Musket balls are discussed in Courtney's "Small Arms Accessories of the Mid-Seventeenth Century" (1988) and on page 202 of "Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition" by Geoff Egan (2005).
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2019
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