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Description: | An incomplete elaborate composite copper-alloy button of post-medieval date. The artefact is formed of two attached pieces. The lower plate is flat and openwork with cusped circumference. Above this is a convex upper section with similar cusping. Both are formed of a ten-petalled floral motif with the cusping formed of the rounded end of each petal. On the upper plate each petal is openwork, with a coiled rope element within the void. There is a vertical linear element in the lower, larger coil. On the lower plate the void is filled by a coiled foliate motif. The two pieces are joined by a central rivet; its head is seen as a pellet in the centre of the flower. The loop on the lower plate is broken, off centre and integral to it. It would probably have been sub-rectangular with a circular perforation. The artefact has corroded to a red-brown colour with overlying grey-green corrosion product. Part of the upper, convex plate has been slightly depressed towards the centre. There is also a small crack either side of the rivet head.A hollow and openwork button in silver can be found illustrated in Bailey (2004, 82; ref. 9.379). This is dated to the 18th century. However, an earlier date (1600-1750 AD) is suggested for a direct parallel recorded on this database (ref. DENO-E498D4). The construction of the loop, complete on this parallel, is more suggestive of a 17th-century date, although a later one cannot be ruled out.
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