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Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 12
by T. M. Hamilton and Bruce W. Fry ContentsAbstract Acknowledgements The Historical and Archaeological Background IntroductionKing's Bastion The King's Bastion Barracks Magazin du Roi Hangard d'Artillerie De Couagne Property Villejouin/Fizel and Richard Properties De Pensens-De Lavalliere Property Lartigue Property King's-Dauphin Curtain Wall The Louisbourg Gunflints Classification of GunflintsFrench Specifications on Gunflints The French Gunflint Contract of 1740 The Louisbourg Garrison and Its Supply Method of Study The Gunflints Cache from Battery Island Gunflints from the Town of Louisbourg King's Bastion Barracks Magazin du Roi Hangard d'Artillerie De Couagne Property Villejouin/Fizel and Richard Properties De Pensens-De Lavallière Property Lartigue Property King's-Dauphin Curtain Wall Some General Comments on Specific Problems On Dutch GunflintsOn Fireflints and Firemaking On the Width of Early French Gunflints On the Pseudo-Dutch Gunflints Conclusions The Battery Island GunflintsThe Gunflints from Within Louisbourg Appendix A: Dimensions of French Gunflints References Cited Tables 1 Battery Island Flints 2 Dimensions of Typical Battery Island Gunflints 3 Jaw and Frizzen Widths of Various French Arms 4 Frequency of French and Dutch Gunflints in Different Size Groupings. Illustrations 1 Louisbourg Harbour. 2 Battery Island, plan and elevation, approximately 1740. 3 The town of Louisbourg, indicating sites from which flints were studied. 4 Basic gunflint types found at Louisbourg, and flints from Battery Island. 5 Gunflints from the Battery Island cache. 6 Chalk-heel gunflints from the Battery Island cache. 7 Gunflints from the town of Louisbourg. B Flints from Fort Frederica, Saint Simons Island, Georgia. 9 Flints from the town of Louisbourg. 10 Flints from the Lartigue property. |
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