
The buttplate of a rifle. This is made of brass which is a copper alloy. It would have been fitted to the end of the rifle to rest against the shoulder when firing.
Recovered form the wreck of the Earl of Abergavenny, a very large East Indiaman that sank in Weymouth Bay in 1805 shortly after departing on its 5th major voyage.

*Measurements from the structured light scan.*
Scanned by the Maritime Archaeology Trust on behalf of the Nautical Archaeology Society with a HP SLS3 and post-processed in ZBrush.