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Pins at one time were rather expensive and were handmade. 

 Shafts were made separate from the heads. Heads were attached by 

 winding loops of very thin wire aromid the butt end of the pin shaft 

 and slightly tapping them to tighten and to shape them into a knob. 

 Pins were passed down in wills during early Colonial times and listed 

 as articles in dowries. The examples found at Fort Lookout II do 

 not belong in that category, however, as they appear to be relatively 

 recent. 



ARTICLES OF BRASS, COPPER, AND LEAD 



A number of brass cartridge cases, together with numerous lead 

 rifle balls and shot, were recovered both from the surface of the site 

 and from the fill above the floor of the uppermost historic level. 

 Mendel L. Peterson, head curator of the Department of Armed Forces 

 History, U.S. National Musemn, identified the various cartridge cases. 



One is a Plenry Flat, of 44 caliber, manufactured by F. Tyler 

 Henry during the mid- 19th century. The base of the case is marked 



Figure 12.- 



-a. Cartridge case of Winchester-type shell from upper historic level. 

 Basal configurations of three cartridge cases. 



b, c, d, 



with the capital "H" and bears two bars, one on either side of a 

 beveled rim that represents the points of pressure that were brought 

 about to detonate the cartridge (fig. 12, d). The case measures 11.5 

 mm. in barrel diameter, 13 mm. in diameter at the base, and is 24 mm. 

 high. At the time the cartridge was found it had been inserted into 

 the cylinder of a larger cartridge case which bears the following 

 marks upon its base : "W.R.A. Co." and "45-75 W.C.F." (pi. 17, 2») . 



This cartridge has been identified as belonging to a 45-75 Win- 

 chester rifle. Model 1886, single shot firing a shell of 350 grains. 

 This case measures 48 mm. in its overall length and for 29 mm. of 

 that length has a diameter of 14 mm. The case then gradually 



