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BUTTON
Unique ID: LEIC-75536A
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete Post-Medieval to Modern button, dating to AD 1700 - 1900. The button is circular in plan, it has a flat rim and is concave when viewed from the front. It is uncertain as to whether the rim is decorated, the centre of the button is designed with a laureate bust facing left, the figure is draped. The underside of the button is mostly undecorated, the underside of the rim is decorated with love hearts, a flower is inside each hesart. In the centre of the domed back are two lugs, which remain from the now missing loop.
Diameter: 21.41 mm
Thickness: 3.54 mm
Weight: 2.38 g
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1750
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 3.54 mm
Weight: 2.38 g
Diameter: 21.41 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: RCM 0645
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cambridgeshire (County)
District: Huntingdonshire (District)
To be known as: Huntingdonshire
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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