Ramrod holder endpiece
End of a ramrod holder from a sea-service musket. This is one of a group of pieces extracted from marine concretion, all apparently from the same weapon; the group comprises numbers ZBA0442-0445. Recovered from the wreck site of an unidentified merchantman circa 1780-1815 in the South Edinburgh Channel, Thames Estuary, in 1975. Other items in the Museum from the same wreck include: REL0628-0689, REL0769-0771, ZBA0439-0445.
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Object Details
ID: | ZBA0445 |
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Collection: | Relics |
Type: | Ramrod holder endpiece |
Display location: | Display - Sea Things Gallery |
Creator: | Buttall, Jonathan |
Date made: | 1780-1815 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Overall: 18 x 113 x 15 mm |