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BUTTON
Unique ID: LIN-5BEE12
Object type certainty: Probably
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A probably lead button. The item has a solid domed head decorated with a moulded quatrefoil with a pellet in angles. The perimeter is decorated with a band of lines. Four strands of lead project from the base of the head, and these are all convex, curving outwards and then meeting again at the base. The base has a small hole in it.
The decoration of the head is similar to that seen on post-medieval lead buttons, and some lead tokens. The item is recorded as a button, but the identification is tentative.
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 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 19 mm
Diameter: 11 mm
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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: East Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Hogsthorpe (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF5373
Four figure Latitude: 53.23200007
Four figure longitude: 0.29077854
1:25K map: TF5373
1:10K map: TF57SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
No references cited so far.
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