Brass rifle butt: Earl of Abergavenny 1805

3D Model

The buttplate of a rifle. This is made of brass which is a copper alloy. It would have been fitted to the end of the rifle to rest against the shoulder when firing.

Recovered form the wreck of the Earl of Abergavenny, a very large East Indiaman that sank in Weymouth Bay in 1805 shortly after departing on its 5th major voyage.

Measurements from the structured light scan.

Scanned by the Maritime Archaeology Trust on behalf of the Nautical Archaeology Society with a HP SLS3 and post-processed in ZBrush.