Brass rifle butt: Earl of Abergavenny 1805

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Maritime Archaeology
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Release Date
2020-10-20
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![](https://bit.ly/3m6P8if) 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. ![](https://bit.ly/3jmK9bv) *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.

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