Snaphaunce Battery: From a gun-lock plate, referred to as a snaphaunce, a mechanism whereby a flint held in a cock was struck against a steel battery that was separate from the pan cover. The snaphaunce gun-lock plate is commonly found on 17th-century sites in Virginia.
This battery was recovered from Causey’s Care, a mid-17th-century site in Charles City County.
Updated April 11, 2018
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