Record ID: CORN-5A2766
Object type: POWDER CHARGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead cylindrical powder charger, with uneven base and damaged rim. Used by musketeers to hold their fine priming powder which would have been poured directly into the musket's priming pan. Probably Civil War period. Read (1988) illustrates powder-charger caps on page 163, Nos.1090-1092, which are dated to c.1660-86.
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.