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TOKEN

Unique ID: SUSS-BDCD25

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Cast lead circular unifaced token. The obverse of the token has a raised design of the letters B and I surrounded by a line border and interspersed with pellets, one each between the letters and at top and bottom, and two pellets on the righthand side. Another two pellets may have existed on the lefthand side where a chip has removed c.5% of the flan. The reverse is blank. The token is 20.6mm in diameter, 2.6mm thick and weighs 5.99 grams. Lead tokens had a wide variety of uses and were made locally; they are therefore hard to date precisely they are therefore hard to date precisely but those with intials are generally Post Medieval in date (1500-1850 AD).

Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: AD 1850

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Thickness: 2.6 mm
Weight: 5.99 g
Diameter: 20.6 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 6th October 2009

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete

Jetton / token data

Denomination: Uncertain

Spatial metadata

Region: South East (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: East Sussex (County)
District: Lewes (District)
To be known as: near Lewes

Spatial coordinates

Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

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Recording Institution: SUSS
Created: 14 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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