Musket ball
Hayes Barton house in Exeter was destroyed during the Civil War. Excavations on the site found many musket balls, some flattened by impact on the buildings. The positions of the shot showed that many had been fired at the hall, others at the farm buildings.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 108/2002/46
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- lead
- Common Name
- musket ball
- Simple Name
- musket ball
- Period Classification
- Charles I (1625-1649)
- Production Date
- 1643
