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TOKEN
Unique ID: SF-FEB574
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A lead groat sized Boy Bishop token similar to Rigold's Bury Series X B 2, c.1470-1539 AD (Rigold, 1978: p. 98).
Obverse: Legend formed of S-shaped scrolls, A mitre, crozier to left, within an inner circle.
Reverse: Legend formed from scrolls, Long cross dividing the legend, four pellets in each angle of the cross, all within an inner circle.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1470
Date to: Circa AD 1539
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 5.4 g
Diameter: 29.03 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st December 2013
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Numismatic data
No numismatic data has been recorded for this coin yet.
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Mid Suffolk (District)
To be known as: Walsham le Willows
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
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