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BUTTON
Unique ID: NARC-38AE02
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper alloy button with a concave reverse and a square suspension loop. The front features an image in relief of Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II. Similar can be seen in Read p.54, no.188.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1662
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 10.29 g
Diameter: 28 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 27th December 2011
Rally details.
This object was found at Central Searchers - near Catworth, Cambs
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cambridgeshire (County)
District: Huntingdonshire (District)
Parish or ward: Catworth (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL0874
Four figure Latitude: 52.353437
Four figure longitude: -0.415716
1:25K map: TL0874
1:10K map: TL07SE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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