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This gunflint, quarried and manufactured in southern England, was found at an archeological site in Linn County. Gunflints were used to generate a spark in a flintlock musket or pistol to ignite the gunpowder and as strike-a-lights for lighting a fire. This gunflint has a single dorsal arris, two planes forming a sharp edge.
Date: 1700-1860
Item Number: 442321
Call Number: 14LN305-101
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 442321
Collections - Archeology
Military - Weapons
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Places - Counties - Linn
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE
Thematic Time Period - Indian Territory, 1820 - 1854
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