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BUTTON
Unique ID: NLM-2120B4
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy gilt button. Hollow composite button with a drawn wire loop. The front beards a gilded relief motif of thistle, rose and shamrock, and circumferential legend reading: MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD & LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY (operating from its amalgamation in 1847 until becoming the Grand Central Railway in 1897). Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1897.
Diameter: 27.4mm, Thickness: 4.5mm, Weight: 6.37gms.
Class:
Uniform
Inscription:
MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD & LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1850
Date to: Exactly AD 1897
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 4.5 mm
Weight: 6.37 g
Diameter: 27.4 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st September 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM26616a
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Keelby
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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