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BUTTON
Unique ID: IOW-28A024
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A Modern cast base-metal military button with a white-metal coating.
A button of the Isle of Wight Artillery and Infantry Volunteer Corps.
The button is circular, convex at the front and concave at the rear. At the front it has a raised design consisting of a medieval drum tower with I*W*V in serifed capitals below (Isle of Wight Volunteers). It has a six-pointed star at each side of the letter W. At the rear there is a stub of the missing loop. Diameter: 20.47mm; thickness: 2.76mm. Weight: 3.39g.
Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wight_rifles#The_Isle_of_Wight_Rifles. Accessed: 05/05/2012.
http://www.theneedlesbattery.org.uk/rifles.php. Accessed: 05/05/2012.
Notes:
This style of IWV button is of the Carisbrooke Company (pers. comm. Steve Newman, 12/06/2013).
Inscription:
IWV
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Finder
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MODERN
Period from: MODERN
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1800
Date to: Circa AD 1950
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 2.76 mm
Weight: 3.39 g
Diameter: 20.47 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 2nd May 2012
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: IOW2012-4-205
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: White metal coated
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
District: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Isle of Wight
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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