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BUTTON
Unique ID: NMS-E83849
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Post-medieval copper alloy button with integral loop, biconical, hollow openwork head with a small central nipple and traces of engraved lines between six sub-triangular perforations on the front face, and with six perforations on the rear face. The loop is drilled Comparable with Baart et al. 1977, 185, no. 235, Margeson 1993, 20-2, fig. 11 no. 102 and Read 2005, 30, no. 93. Diameter 11.5mm. Length 18mm. 16th century.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 18 mm
Diameter: 11.5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 19th April 2017 - Monday 15th May 2017
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 31375
Other reference: NMD052017
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: North Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Hindringham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF9937
Four figure Latitude: 52.89360329
Four figure longitude: 0.95682216
1:25K map: TF9937
1:10K map: TF93NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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