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Description: | Heavy solid button, nearly globular in shape, made from a white metal, perhaps a very high-tin bronze. There are some small chips in the surface which appear to show that the button is entirely made from this metal rather than having a mainly copper-alloy core. There is no decoration on the button. On the back is an oval hole where a separate loop, probably of copper-alloy wire, was inserted. Parallels from excavations in London come from contexts of c. 1230-1450 (Egan and Pritchard 1991, nos. 1384-1395), and they probably continued in use into the post-medieval period.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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