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Post medieval: Military button
Photographer
Berkshire Archaeology, David Williams, 2016-01-22 11:38:35
Title
Post medieval: Military button
Description
English: A Post Medieval copper alloy button decorated with a crown over the number 2 SOMERSET REG(T).

Originally formed in 1797 as the West Somerset Supplementary Militia, the unit had become the 2nd Somerset Militia by 1800, a title the unit kept until becoming Light Infantry in 1876.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Oxfordshire
Date between 1790 and 1810
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1810-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 756117
Old ref: SUR-2A0DC1
Filename: B151105.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/549528
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/549528/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/756117
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License
Object location51° 32′ 50.28″ N, 1° 09′ 42.05″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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51°32'50.3"N, 1°9'42.1"W

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current10:29, 13 February 2019Thumbnail for version as of 10:29, 13 February 2019876 × 700 (199 KB)FæPortable Antiquities Scheme, SUR, FindID: 756117, post medieval, page 4839, batch count 12225

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