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    Brass Butt Plate found in South Africa

    Managed to clean the plate up a bit. I only used polishing paste as im worried that anything more abrasive could damage the etching and patina.
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    Brass Butt Plate found in South Africa

    On another note i also found this fairly large calibre slug that looks like it had hit something and glanced off, you can however see a kind of crows foot marking on the inside rim of the slug, this same marking is on one or two buildings close by. These markings were apparently used by the...
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    Brass Butt Plate found in South Africa

    I cant find anything specific about that exact area been a battle field, there are however cannons close by but these mostly date from 19th and 20th centuries
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    Brass Butt Plate found in South Africa

    here is a pic of the musket ball i found near by, as mentioned before it weighed 1 1/8 oz. the scratches on the ball are from my spade when i was digging.
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    Brass Butt Plate found in South Africa

    Many thanks for all the help. I didn't find anything with the butt-plate so i cant begin to wonder how that made it into the mountains without the rest of the gun. The plate was pretty deep in the sand so there could possibly be more interesting finds in the area which could be a bit deep for my...
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    Brass Butt Plate found in South Africa

    Greetings everyone. Im wondering if any of you could possibly help with a Identification and dating on this brass butt plate that i found while metal detecting. Ive asked a few people and they think that it could be from a Brown Bess? I found it up in the mountains here in Simonstown (South...
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