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PIN
Unique ID: SUR-DFF381
Object type certainty: Probably
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
The cast silver head of a pin, probably of 18th or early 19th century date. The hollow head is made from two hemispheres and is decorated all over with punched quatrefoils, each foil being lozengiform in shape. There is a sexfoil with circular foils on the apex. There is a pierced hole in the lower hemisphere where corrosion suggests that the missing shaft was of copper alloy.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1850
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 2.95 g
Diameter: 10.25 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 13-499
Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Secondary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Surrey (County)
District: Elmbridge (District)
Parish or ward: Cobham and Downside (District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ1059
Four figure Latitude: 51.319482
Four figure longitude: -0.422893
1:25K map: TQ1059
1:10K map: TQ15NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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