Rights Holder: The Portable Antiquities Scheme
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Unique ID: PUBLIC-AC3996
Object type certainty: Certain
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A complete Cast lead alloy circular double faced token. The token has a raised design of the capital letters IT with the date 1751 below. The other side has II B. It is 22.66 mm in diameter, 3.18 mm thick and weighs 6.3 grams. Lead tokens had a wide variety of uses and were made locally, dated examples are rare and this helps confirm the usual identification of examples with initials as Post Medieval in date.
Class: Powell type 2 and 8
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 3.18 mm
Weight: 6.3 g
Diameter: 22.66 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 12th April 2014
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Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
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Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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