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Description: | Possible copper-alloy nail or upholstery tack. The head is biconvex, 9 mm in diameter, and the upper half is more highly domed than the lower half. The total thickness of the head is 7 mm. In the centre of the lower half is a slim circular-section spike, now at an angle; it is about 9 mm long. The object is very like an early post-medieval button, but with a spike instead of a loop. It seems unlikely that the spike is the remains of a loop, as it comes out of the centre and there is no trace of a scar from the other end of the loop. Such a large globular head, however, also seems strange for a nail or upholstery tack. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Geake, Helen - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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