File:Brown bess musket fragment (FindID 660742).jpg

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Brown bess musket fragment
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Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Richard Henry, 2015-03-09 10:09:27
Title
Brown bess musket fragment
Description
English: An incomplete copper alloy trigger guard for a musket, possibly Brown Bess type. The trigger guard is shaped to fit between the barrel and the stock, it is slightly ornate in design. One end tapers to a small knop, the other end is broken. There is a piece of metal set at a right angle and bored with a small hole that is designed to fix the guard to the stock or barrel. The length is 118.84mm, width 19.79mm, thickness 4.07mm. It weighs 56.42 grams.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Wiltshire
Date between 1740 and 1830
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1740-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1830-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 660742
Old ref: WILT-909162
Filename: WILT909162.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/508410
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/508410/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/660742
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 15 November 2020)
Object location51° 32′ 54.24″ N, 2° 13′ 55.6″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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