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BUTTON
Unique ID: NLM-C55E99
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy buttons. Two flat discoid buttons (a and b) with separately cast loops brazed to their backs. Both bear closely spaced lathe turned concentric rings on their fronts, and the larger (a) has an incised star motif enclosed by these. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900.
Dimensions:
a) Diameter: 124.8mm, Thickness (clear of loop): 1mm, Weight: 3.95gms
b) Diameter: 16.3mm, Thickness (clear of loop); 0.8mm, Weight: 1.76gms
Combined weight: 5.71gms.
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 1850
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 2
Weight: 5.71 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 12th May 2016
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM32387
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Haxey
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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