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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy post-medieval button. The button is circular in section, with a slightly concave front and a flat base with the remains of a shank in the centre. There is a recessed circular border within the outer edge of the front of the button. Within this, six inverted recessed ??V?? designs run around the front of the button , between which and closer to the centre are six circular stippled recesses. At the centre of the button is a recessed dot within a recessed ring. The reverse of the button appears undecorated.
The button is 16.4mm in diameter and 4.9mm thick at the centre (including the broken shank), with a mass of 2.7g. The button has a well developed green patina, with a small dark brown area on the front and on one of the two stubs of the shank on the reverse. There is also an unidentified brown substance on much of the reverse of the button. As well as the broken shank, the button has lost some material from its circumference; some of this damage appears recent.
The button, including the design, is very similar to object 120 in ??Metal Buttons c.900 BC ?? c.AD 1700 (Read, 2005, p34). Read dates object 120 to c. 17th century, and comments that the type continued into the 18th century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Slarke, Duncan - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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