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TOKEN
Unique ID: SUSS-2E3557
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Medieval or Post Medieval cast lead-alloy circular uni-faced token. The token has a raised design which is difficult to interpret on one face, it is possibly a bird with the head upper left and a triangular wing above the body within a raised line border; the other side is blank. It is 21.6mm in diameter, 3.4mm thick and weighs 7.97 grams. Lead tokens had a wide variety of uses and were made locally, they are therefore hard to date precisely and this example could date from the Medieval or Post Medieval periods, 1250-1850 AD.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1250
Date to: Circa AD 1850
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 3.4 mm
Weight: 7.97 g
Diameter: 21.6 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st February 2010
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Numismatic data
No numismatic data has been recorded for this coin yet.
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Sussex (County)
District: Wealden (District)
To be known as: Framfield
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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