Fig. 2

Disassembled bomb lance fragment from whale 07B8. The three pieces of the bomb fragment are 1 the bomb lances’ head, with the six-grooved ownership mark (see lower left inset) and the hole for anchoring the firing weight, 2 the firing weight (or “hammer”), and 3 the piece that connected the head of the bomb lance to its body, and through which the fuse was led. When the bomb lance was fired, the inertia of the firing weight broke it free, forcing it to strike a percussion cap, which would ignite the fuse. The fuse then burned back through a tube in the connecting piece and ignited the black powder explosive in the bomb’s body a few seconds later. The bomb lance’s body tube was not found