Cock Screw 755

44CC178/37/2C-6

Cock Screw —Gun part
from any of the flintlock- type gun-lock plates which would have had a cock
to hold the flint, in this case probably a snaphaunce.  The cock
screw held the jaws of the cock tight against the flint grips. 
Recovered from Causey’s Care, a mid-17th-century site in Charles City
County.

Updated May 30, 2017