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BADGE
Unique ID: LIN-033E8E
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A medieval lead badge in the form of a squirrel. The squirrel is shown crouching on the floor. Its front paws hold a nut in its mouth. The body of the squirrel is slender, and tapers to the neck. It is decorated with a series of small pellets, with a row of moulded diagonal lines running along its back. The feet are also elongated and similarly decorated with moulded diagonal lines. The face is oval and the eye is shown by a single pellet. The ears rise vertically from the head; both are decorated with a small groove down the centre. A nut, defined by a large pellet, is shown in its mouth. The tail is slender and extends along its back and up to its ears. The tail is decorated with a series of moulded chevrons. A casting seam runs along the centre of the back. Two incomplete swellings are seen on the reverse, opposite to the squirrels' rear-end. This presumably is the remains of a pin lug.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 29 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight: 3.04 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st January 2015 - Wednesday 9th September 2015
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: near Wragby
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
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