Socket marked with 'No 2',  this particular bayonet is known to belong to a numbered set of 9 bayonets *¹.

Bayonet marked with maker 'WOOLLEY',  James Woolley *²,  noted as BO supplier in 1793,  known to have worked at Edmund Street,  Birmingham in 1797.  Became 'WOOLLEY & DEAKIN' on the 30^th April 1803,  therefore dating this bayonet as pre 1803.

  

(1) The Brown Bess Bayonet 1720-1860 by Graham Priest, page 112 & fig.99 , ISBN 0-946696-05-5

(2) British & Commonwealth bayonets by Ian D Skennerton and Robert Richardson,  page 398,  ISBN 0 949749 04 4