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Description: | Circular, convex, solid cast, lead/tin button, with a six-petalled flower decoration. The sunken petals are in the form of heart-shaped cells which may have held coloured enamel when the button was in its original condition, none of this remains. The back is flat with the casting seam visible and the integral cast loop is bent.
Measuring: 24.2mm. diameter. From face to back of loop 7.8mm.
Reference: Brian Reads - Metal Buttons c.900 BC - c.1700.
Identification supplied by Jim Halliday. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Andrews-Wilson, Liz - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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