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Title: Flintlock Pistol found the other week Post by: The Ferret on October 15, 2012, 02:52:40 PM Hi All
Found this the other week Its a ladies Cuff or muff Flintlock pistol :o Still has it's flint in place TF Title: Re: Flintlock Pistol found the other week Post by: adrian wall on October 15, 2012, 03:23:05 PM Brill,What a finf.
Title: Re: Flintlock Pistol found the other week Post by: dances with badgers on October 15, 2012, 05:24:39 PM ooh i like guns oooh :o
Title: Re: Flintlock Pistol found the other week Post by: The Ferret on October 15, 2012, 06:29:12 PM More info here http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=38977&cat=500 (http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=38977&cat=500)
TF Title: Re: Flintlock Pistol found the other week Post by: Chef Geoff on October 15, 2012, 06:36:29 PM Have you managed to clean the barrel out at all? just wondering if it was loaded when lost.
Title: Re: Flintlock Pistol found the other week Post by: The Ferret on October 15, 2012, 06:47:51 PM Have you managed to clean the barrel out at all? just wondering if it was loaded when lost. Have cleaned out a little of the barrel but hit a dead end :o about 1.15cm short before the little hole I suppose the spark enters the chamber to fire the black powder. ??? The flint is cocked in the ready to fire position aswel. so I'm not 100% sure I have emailed FLO but no response as yet :'(Title: Re: Flintlock Pistol found the other week Post by: peanut on October 16, 2012, 08:05:41 AM interesting find Ferrett . I'm curious to know how you came to dig it ? What signal did it give on the AT Pro ?
I sometimes wonder how much iron artifacts we miss by discriminating or throwing away due to ignorance When I first started out detecting I dug up this huge figure of 8 chain with a manacle but not knowing what it was I slung it in the hedge. I read an article many years later about Roman manacles and recognised the 'iron chain' that I'd thrown away.! item 5177 . Last year on an SAS rally someone dug up a lump of iron which I recognised as a shoe pattern but it was slung into the junk iron pile because the finder was told it was part of an old animal trap ??? perhaps we should dig everything ;) before all the interesting iron artifacts disintegrate and are gone for good Title: Re: Flintlock Pistol found the other week Post by: The Ferret on October 16, 2012, 08:11:16 AM Morning Mate
Gave me a iffy signal as the gun was quite deep. Was on a boring quite field and was digging any signal apart from full iron signals TF Title: Re: Flintlock Pistol found the other week Post by: peanut on October 17, 2012, 08:59:44 AM Morning Mate Was on a boring quite field and was digging any signal apart from full iron signals TF morning squire That sounds like most of my fields at the moment lol ;D |