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BUTTON
Unique ID: NLM-C1012A
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy possible button or cloak fastener. Cast discoid plate with a stepped and bevelled edge and flat display face, hollow behind, and with a boss on the back of diameter 8mm which appears smoothed. The display face bears an incised compass drawn design of four interlinked penannular figures, each with circles at the ends of its arms, and with a further circle enclosed by each figure, all set about a slightly larger central circle of diameter c.3mm. The circles may have small pellets at their centres, and the enclosed circles a line of three smaller pellets. The decoration was probably executed in a craft rather than an industrial setting. It may have originally incorporated white metal plating. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1650-1800.
Diameter: 33.2mm, Height: 5.5mm, Thickness (at rim): 1.4mm, Weight: 13.33gms.
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 1650
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 5.5 mm
Thickness: 1.4 mm
Weight: 13.33 g
Diameter: 33.2 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 11th January 2015
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM28782
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: White metal coated
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Faldingworth
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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