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Gunflint
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West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, 2015-11-22 20:49:03
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Gunflint
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English: Three post-medieval/modern gun-flints from a flintlock musket dating from AD 1650 - 1850. The flints are rectangular in plan and trapezoid in cross-section, one face sloping more shallowly. The edge of this longer side has a notch in the centre on two of the examples. The flint is dark-grey in colour.

A. 34.1mm long, 31.2mm wide and 8.9mm thick. 14.33g.
B. 34.5mm long, 28.8mm wide and 10.6mm thick. 14.94g.
C. 32.4mm long, 30.3mm wide and 11.4mm thick. 15.30g.

Compare LVPL-5C5593. Alistair Willis (FLO, pers comm) adds that flintlock muskets were invented in the early 17th centuyr, but were not widely used until about AD 1650. See also Clive Bond, <a href="http://finds.org.uk/database/database/database/publications/publication/id/1372" title="View reference work's details">PAS Guide to the Identification, Assessment and Recording of Lithics</a> : PAS, pp163-164'.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Nottinghamshire
Date between 1650 and 1850
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 753066
Old ref: SWYOR-22A1B4
Filename: PAS_2677_gunflint_3.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/541861
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/541861/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/753066
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Object location53° 12′ 37.44″ N, 0° 44′ 53.96″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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