  Deep BV photometry for a large field covering the outer-halo globular cluster
NGC 6229 is presented. For the first time, a colour-magnitude diagram (CMD)
reaching below the main sequence turnoff has been obtained for this cluster.
Previous results regarding the overall morphology of the horizontal and giant
branches are confirmed. In addition, nine possible extreme horizontal-branch
stars have been identified in our deep images, as well as thirty-three
candidate blue stragglers. We also find the latter to be more centrally
concentrated than subgiant branch stars covering the same range in V magnitude.
  A comparison of the cluster CMD with the M5 (NGC 5904) ridgeline from
Sandquist et al. (1996) reveals that:
  i) NGC 6229 and M5 have essentially identical metallicities;
  ii) NGC 6229 and M5 have the same ages within the errors in spite of their
different horizontal-branch morphologies.
