Musket Ball And Small Shot Identification: A Guide

Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification: A Guide traces the history of musket balls and small shot, and explores their uses as lethal projectiles and in nonlethal alterations. Sivilich asks--and answers--a variety of questions to demonstrate how a musket ball found in a military context can help to interpret the site: Was it fired? What did it hit? What type of gun is it associated with? Has it been chewed, and if so, by whom or what? Was it hammered into gaming pieces?

• | Author: Daniel M. Sivilich
• | Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 18, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 0806151587
• | ISBN-13: 9780806151588