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Cartridge Box

Object/Artifact

Artifact 99-05 is the wooden cartridge box that carried a soldier's musket balls and gunflint.

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Box used to carry paper-wrapped musket cartridges. The cartridge box was a block of wood with vertical holes to hold the cartridges covered by a leather flap.

Valcour Bay Research Project Collection

1776

Box, Cartridge

Box, Armament

Container, Armament

Armament Accessories

Armaments

Category 05: Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology

Archaeological Project Number

99-05.01

Wood

Good

Conserved

Edwin Scollon

Valcour Bay

Lake Champlain

Vermont

New York

United States of America

North America

Battle of Valcour Bay

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