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Medieval / Post-Medieval copper alloy hackbut
Handgun barrel with characteristic recoil stop and fragment of its wooden filler still in its socketed breech
WA_SC 17.1
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
87.42H
Find Information
Site Name: Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
Notes: found by a diver off the island
Acquisition
Purchase, 7/7/1987
Measurements
length / mm:707.0
length / mm:60.0 (recoil stop)
bore / mm:19.0
Material
copper alloy
wood
Techniques
cast
Location
St Fagans Wales Is gallery : Medieval Artefacts
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