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Post-medieval iron cannon ball from a Falconet
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Tom Brindle, 2011-05-26 16:26:49
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Post-medieval iron cannon ball from a Falconet
Description
English: A cast spherical iron cannon ball, which based upon its diameter and weight was fired from a Falconet, a piece of small artillery with a calibre of between 2 and 2 1/2 inches, firing shot of approximately 1 pound a maximum distance of approximately 1000 paces (Roy 1975, 261-263). This example is 49.33 mm in diameter (just short of 2 inches) and weighs 485.9 grams (1.1 pounds). It has a dark brown patina and is well preserved. Falconets were in use from the late 15th to 18th centuries AD.

Ian Roy (ed.) The Royalist Ordnance Papers, 1642-1646 - Part 2. Wheatley:
Oxfordshire Record Society, 1975 (Oxfordshire Record Series Vol.49) pp261-263.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Shropshire
Date between 1475 and 1800
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1475-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 444432
Old ref: WMID-E6FA72
Filename: WMID-E6FA72.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/329530
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/329530/recordtype/artefacts
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/444432
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 16 November 2020)
Object location52° 33′ 09″ N, 2° 22′ 25.43″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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