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Description: | Post-Medieval composite cast openwork button. The flat back-plate (with incomplete integral loop) is decorated with a multifoil in counter-relief, and in a number of places the metal is fully pierced, probably by accident. This has the same number of foils (ten) as the convex front plate, although details of decoration are different. The front is very elaborately treated, with fine detail enhanced by engraved lines and cast pellets. The space between the two parts is hollow. Diameter 30mm, thickness (exclusive of loop) 7.5mm. No close parallel has been noted but a 17th-century date is likely. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robbins, Katherine - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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