On 31/3/01 07:17, "Automatic digest processor" <[log in to unmask]>
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Martin Read wrote
>
> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:20:21 GMT
> From: Martin Joseph Read <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: lead shot identification
>
> Greetings
>
> I am looking at some of the concretions from the mid 17thc Salcombe
> wreck. Several concretions have lead shot of diameter 16.4-16.7mm,
> which would have been fired from a gun of ca.17mm diameter.
>
> I am trying to work out what might have fired them. I have been going
> through the list of lead shot references which Paulo Monteiro posted
> (thanks, extremely useful). Richard Larnes' report on the VOC Campen
> identifies larger and smaller shot, but not those around this
> diameter.
>
> Campen, 1627
> 17mm+ Musket
> 16.6mm ?
> 15.3-15.5 mm Caliver
>
> Other published wrecks also have similar sizes shot:
>
> Santo Christo de Castello, 1667
> 17mm Musket
> 16mm Carbine
> 13mm Pistol
>
> Dartmouth 1690
> 16mm Carbine/ Musketoon
>
> The Meresteyn, 1702
> 18mm Musket
> 16.5mm Musket
> 16mm Carbine/Musketoon
>
> I understand that the diameter of muskets got smaller with time, so
> the Meresteyn may be a read herring. What about the possibility of
> them being from a carbine?
>
> Someone has suggested a a fusil or fusee which was a light type
> of musket, something like a carbine. Any thoughts?
>
> Can any of you suggest any further references to research this or
> anybody who might be able to help?
> **********************************************
> Martin Read
> Institute of Marine Studies
> University of Plymouth
> e-mail:[log in to unmask]
> http://hydrography.ims.plym.ac.uk
>
> 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work
> - I want to achieve it through not dying' - Woody Allen
>
> **********************************************
>
There is a possibility that this is a carbine. The Dutch regulations 1599 to
1639 talk about 18 rolling (round) bullets to the pont which equates to 16.6
mm. See BAR 489 The Retourschip Batavia p71. For more details
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