wooden barrels with lead musket balls

MAC CASC 19948, MAC CASC 19839, MAC CASC 19949

Object type wooden barrels with lead musket balls

Culture/period Contemporary

Materials wood, lead

Technique

Mint

Production date 1813

Museum Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - CASC

Current location

Archaeological site Deltebre I

Township Deltebre (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Tarragona, Baix Ebre)

Dimensions 345 x 240 mm, 15 x 17’5 mm, 245 x 1 mm

Description

The barrels of lead bullets for muskets carried by the Deltebre I were filled with 500 bullets as can be read in the inscription on the lid. On the cover you can read: «[...] [Mus. Ball] [Cartr. 500] [Oct. 1810] [...]».

Omeka ID 3115