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Description: | Hollow-cast Iron Age hemispherical 'button', function uncertain although probably a personal ornament, with four large circular settings containing remains of red enamel, within finely engraved bordering lines delineating sub-triangular zones of tiny punched dots that meet at the perforated apex that contains a copper alloy rivet with a tiny circular rove on pointed external terminal. Hollow interior contains an unidentified whitish deposit. Diameter 16mm. Thickness of wall 3mm. Cf. buttons from Grimston (HER 11789) and Ashill (possible pair) (HER 8712). These all bear some resemblance to a larger button thought to be derived from the end of a sword tang, illustrated in MacGregor (1976), vol.2, no.173. Probably 1st century AD.
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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