Ball
This small ball is one of several known from Britain and was used either for tennis or fives. It is made from four pieces of leather sewn together around a core of packed moss. It was excavated from a rubbish pit in Exeter.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 300/1988/L68
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- leathermoss
- Common Name
- ball
- Simple Name
- ball (game)
- Period Classification
- Post Medieval (1500-1750); Commonwealth (1649-1660); Charles II (1660-1685)
- Production Date
- 1660
