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Badge

Unique ID: NARC-69BA44

Object type certainty: Certain

Star-shaped miners' badge of copper alloy, dated 1917. Reverse is blank, obverse bears central circle and six points. Each point is ornamented with c.8 radiating lines. The top and bottom point bears perforations for attachment, and the upper one has been broken across the hole.

The central circle bears a simple legend in 3 lines, the upper and lower lines of which curve around the arcs of the circle The legend reads: PELSALL/*1917*/MINERS

This badge would have been worn by a miner working at the Pelsall Hall colliery, near Birmingham. This colliery is best known for the mining disaster of 1872, in which 22 miners were drowned.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: MODERN
Period from: MODERN [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: AD 1917

Dimensions and weight

Weight: 4 g
Diameter: 35 mm
Quantity: 1

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Cast [scope notes | view all attributed records]

Spatial data

Region: East
County: Bedfordshire
District: Bedford
Parish: Bedford

Restricted 4 Figure grid reference: TL0449
The map has been degraded and provides an approximate location with a degree of random obfuscation.
Grid reference source: Centred on village (which isn't a parish)
Grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Method of discovery: Metal detector [scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land [scope notes]

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 2nd August 2007

Personal details

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Recorded by: Dr Steven Ashby - [ view all attributed records]
Identified by: Dr Steven Ashby - [view all attributed records]

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    Created: Thursday 30th August 2007
    Updated: Thursday 24th February 2011

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