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TOKEN
Unique ID: SUSS-1C57C4
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Cast lead circular uni-faced token. The token has a raised design of a long equal armed cross with one pellet in each corner within a line circle on one side, the other side is blank. It is 16.4mm in diameter, 1.8mm thick and weighs 3.19grams.
Lead tokens had a wide variety of uses and were made locally, they are therefore hard to date precisely. While cross and pellet designs were traditionally thought to copy Medieval coinage and therefore be mostly Medieval in date publication of moulds that combine Post Medieval designs (initials) with cross and pellet designs (Kerridge and de Ruiter 2009: 229) suggest they continued in use into the Post Medieval period and this example could date from 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: Exactly AD 1850
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1.8 mm
Weight: 3.19 g
Diameter: 16.4 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st February 2010
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Numismatic data
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Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Sussex (County)
District: Lewes (District)
To be known as: Lewes
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kerridge, R. and de Ruiter, R. | 2009 | The tokens, metallic tickets, checks and passes of West Sussex, 1650-1950. | England | Privately published | 229 |
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