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Record ID: YORYM-CAF532
Object type: FIREARM
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy trigger guard of Post-medieval date (AD 1700-1900). The object is a tapering strip of copper alloy (D shaped in section) which has been bent round to for a broadly circular shape (possibly caused by . Both ends of the object terminate in old, abraded breaks. There is no decoration on either surface of the object.
The metal is a dark brown in colour with a slightly pitted surface patina.
Similar examples can be seen on the Portable Antiquities Database: Unique ID: SOMDOR-14D5A5, Unique ID: CPAT-613E27.
Created on: Friday 7th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd December 2014
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-F2A622
Object type: FIREARM
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post medieval complete ramrod tailpipe. A cylindrical copper-alloy tube with integral, external pierced lug near a straight end, and three low ribs around the outside of the opposite half, the other end continuing through a pair of overlapping tongue-shaped mouldings into an elongated, pointed, nib-like terminal. Length 72mm. External diameter 11.5mm. Internal diameter 8.5 - 9mm.
Part of a very similar object, lacking the terminal and with a longer tube and small hole near the straight end, was found in Pulham Market (HER 22622) in the 1980s. They are ramrod tailpipes, used to hold…
Created on: Friday 11th April 2008
Last updated: Friday 4th April 2014
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This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.
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