Gun part
Category
Arms and armour
Date
circa 1690 - circa 1710
Materials
Brass, Wood
Measurements
1109 mm (L)
Order this imageCollection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 452126.2
Summary
Gun part; Musket forestock, c1690 - 1710
Full description
The fore-stock from a military musket, English, c1690. Wooden fore-stock, inletted on the right side for a flintlock and on the left side for a scroll-shaped side-plate (both missing) and fitted with 2 brass baluster turned ramrod pipes. Overall length:112cm
Provenance
Indigenous collection purchased by Ministry of Works in 1956 and given to Dyrham Park in 1961