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BUTTON
Unique ID: LEIC-5D20F7
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Late medieval lead alloy button, 26mm in diameter and 14mm wide. The object is in good condition and weighs 14.23garms. The face of the button is slightly domed and is 5mm thick. It is decorated with a series of 6 domes 3mm in diameter, which are joined by three raised lines in a row. The rest of the field is filled by smaller domes 1 and 2mm in diameter. The reverse has a raised casting scar running across its centre and from the centre of this emerges the remains of a fixing loop.
The button is similar to, but a much better example of, a button in Bailey, 2004. P19, fig 6.8 dated to the 14th-15th C.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight: 14.23 g
Diameter: 26 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 21st October 2012
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Melton (District)
To be known as: nr Melton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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