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Unique ID: NARC-54CDA8
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Complete pair of silver cufflinks. Round cufflinks with matching etched designs - three flowers entwined at the stems with a border of short diagional lines. Connected at the reverse by an oval link fitted through circular suspension loops on the reverse of the cufflinks. Each cufflink is 19mm in diameter and is slightly concave.
This style of cufflink is typically dated to the later 18th century, and as such has not been reported as Treasure under the 1996 Treasure Act.
Class: cufflink
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1750
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 34 mm
Weight: 3.55 g
Diameter: 20 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration method: Engraved
Decoration style: Floral
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: Daventry (District)
Parish or ward: Creaton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP7071
Four figure Latitude: 52.3326319
Four figure longitude: -0.97415109
1:25K map: SP7071
1:10K map: SP77SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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