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BUTTON
Unique ID: SOM-ED9FF3
Object type certainty: Certain
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Modern brass (copper-alloy) button. Slightly domed front and concave back. The front decorated with a circle formed of a belt with buckle inscribed MENTAL HOSPITAL, WELLS. The back has no makers mark and just two concentric raised rings around a central loop formed of a D-shaped strip bent over into a loop and applied to the back. The button is 25.6mm in diameter, 3.3mm thick and weighs 5.59 grams.
Mendip Hospital , the former county asylum was known as Wells Mental Hospital by 1929 and the Somerset and Bath Mental Hospital (Wells) between 1940 - 1948 so a date of c.1900 to 1948 is suggested.
Notes:
Theo van hensberg
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Acquired by a museum - not a Treasure case
Chronology
Broad period: MODERN
Period from: MODERN
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1900
Date to: Circa AD 1948
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 3.3 mm
Weight: 5.59 g
Diameter: 25.6 mm
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: Mendip (District)
Parish or ward: Wells (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST5545
Four figure Latitude: 51.20242951
Four figure longitude: -2.64547558
1:25K map: ST5545
1:10K map: ST54NE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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