Flints and Shot





Shown above are Spanish musket, carbine and pistol flints (left) and various sizes of lead shot for these weapons (right). The  flints are all prism-shaped, and the example in the upper left corner is actually of French material. Such artifacts provide evidence  of the often illicit but necessary trade that took place between these neighboring colonial powers. Several of the lead shot, which  range in size from approximately 1.00 to .50 caliber, appear to have been cast in stone molds.

Courtesy of: Military Artifacts of Spanish Florida, 1650-1821