I picked up on this thread because I found a similar piece at Hauxley recently, which I'm pretty sure is grape shot.
I've just looked up the entry in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana for Alnmouth (Google - Books) and it does state that it was captured and fortified by the French during Elizabethan times. I thought the compilers must have just got their facts wrong, but the entry for Alnwick seems historially correct and in some depth so perhaps there might be some truth in it. How strange - Has anybody else followed this one up?
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