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Description: | A copper alloy button with enamelled decoration, dating from the post medieval period. The button has a diameter of 23.5mm and is 10.2mm thick. It is convex with a small projecting dome in the centre. The face is decorated with a ring of six bifid or heart shaped cells round the dome, which contain white and green enamel alternately. An outer ring of twelve pentagonal cells arranged in pairs are also filled with green and white enamel; each pair contains both colours, arranged so there are groups of two green and then two white cells all the way round. These are aligned with the bifid cells so that the colours are in blocks together. The back of the button is hollow with a rectangular tab projecting from the centre which is pierced to act as an attachment loop.
Similar examples are illustrated in Egan, G, 2005, ??Material Culture in London in an age of transition: Tudor and Stuart period finds c 1450-c 1700 from excavations at riverside sites in Southwark??, pages 48-9, particularly no 183. Buttons of this type date to between AD 1600-1800 and may have been used as a cloak fastener. Other examples on the database include WMID-56C362, CORN-87AA74, SF6487, and NMS-8A2FA2 which is particularly similar. They do not seem to be common finds. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Cooper, Amy - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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