Lead shot finds at Hayes Barton
By Sarah, Curator of West Exe and Oliver Blackmore, Assistant Curator of Antiquities
These are some of the many musket shot found among the traces of buildings at Hayes Barton. The Elizabethan house on this site was attacked during the English Civil War. Archaeologists investigated the site in the 1980s. The precise positions of the shot were recorded, showing that many had been fired at the house and others at the farm buildings in the courtyard.
The lead shot was cast in moulds. Such ammunition could be made speedily; even the lead pipes supplying Exeter with drinking water were torn up for the purpose.
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Lead shot from Hayes Barton
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