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BUTTON
Unique ID: NLM-ECF9C9
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy buttons. Three probable buttons, a group comprising one button, one button front and one probable button front (a-c). All are flat discoid buttons. The largest (a), retains a separately cast and drilled loop on the back and is decorated with a zone of closely spaced probably lathe made circumferential lines on its front. The button front (b) has a boss on the back for the loop (lost), though partly concealed by adhering soil. The final object (c) retains no clear evidence for a loop. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900.
Dimensions:
a) Diameter: 24.5mm, Thickness (clear of loop): 1.1mm, Weight: 4.21gms
b) Diameter: 17mm, Thickness (clear of loop position): 0.8mm, Weight (with adhering soil): 1.50gms
c) Diameter: 19.3mm, Thickness: 0.7mm, Weight: 1.85gms
Combined Weight: 7.56gms
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 1800
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 3
Weight: 7.56 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 24th April 2016
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM32424
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wakefield (Metropolitan District)
District: Wakefield (Metropolitan District)
To be known as: Darrington
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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