51�Թ�

Returning to the display of artefacts in neatly labelled zip-lock bags, Prof DeCorse points out the rusty gunflint, which he says was in use in England in the early 17th Century.

The glory of the rabbits remains, but the gunflint trade was, of course, vanished.

An ounce of gunpowder having been found in the morning, was dried in the sun during the day, which was very fine; a steel, gunflints, and tinder made also a part of the same parcel.

The wines had the dry smack of gunflint and the bouquet of powder, and the company imbibed freely.

"It was one of those cases in which one has to resort to the gunflint."