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Arms

Five Round Catapult Balls

Maker: Unknown

Four Fragments of Large Spear Head (?)

Maker: Unknown

Parthian Arrow Shaft

Maker: Unknown

Barbed Arrowhead

Maker: Unknown

Two Lance Heads (?)

Maker: Unknown

Large Catapult Ball

Maker: Unknown

Small Catapult Ball

Maker: Unknown

Small Sword

Maker: William Cowell, Jr. (American, active ca. 1713 - 1761)

Hunting Sword

Maker: Ephraim Brasher (American, 1744–1810)

Small Sword

Maker: John Coney (American, 1655–1722)

Sword

Maker, attributed to: John Tanner (1713–1785)

Military Dress Sword Owned by Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

Maker: John Bennett I (British, 1708–1774)

Sword

Maker: William Ball (American, 1763–1815)

Bronze arrowhead

Maker: Unknown

Bronze dagger

Maker: Unknown

Bronze axe

Maker: Unknown

Ten Parthian Arrow Shafts

Maker: Unknown

Two Pointed Sticks

Maker: Unknown

Five Painted (?) Wood Fragments of Shield

Maker: Unknown

Lorica Squamata

Maker: Unknown

Pistol

Maker: Owned by John Trumbull (American, 1756–1843)

Crown-shaped bronze fragment

Maker: Unknown

Cheek-piece from a horse harness

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Copper alloy oval strap mount

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