File:Metal Ball (FOUS 575) (a7b63623-1dd8-b71b-0bf7-b0e0714c0052).jpg

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English: Metal Ball (FOUS 575)
Photographer
English: NPS photo
Title
English: Metal Ball (FOUS 575)
Publisher
English: U.S. National Park Service
Description
English:

Molded metal ball.

This 3.2 oz. molded metal ball is another example of grapeshot unearthed during the Fort Union excavations. As with FOUS 151, it may have been made for use in a swivel gun. Such guns might have been mounted on the fort’s palisade walls as well as on riverboats. Swivel guns mounted on keelboats could be fired for offensive and defensive purposes as well as used as a signaling device.

  • Keywords: fort; union; trading; post; fur; trade; ammunition; fous
Depicted place
English: Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
Date Taken on 6 January 2017
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English: NPGallery
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
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FOUS

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