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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy button of Post-Medieval date (c. AD 1500 - c. AD 1600). Length: 15.2mm; width: 9.3mm and 9.1mm thick. Weight: 2.32g. The button has a four sided pyramidal head (8.9mm x 9.1mm) and an elongated integral shank. Each facet of the head has a slightly raised border within which there is a raised design. The design is indeterminate due to wear and corrosion. The incomplete shank is sub-rectangular and measures about 6.4mm in length and 4.9mm in width. The thickness is 1.2mm. The shank has an old break which runs about mid-way through a perforation which appears to have been circular with a diameter of about 2.4mm. Beneath the head the shank is aligned corner to corner. This button has tiny flecks of a mid-green patina and the surface colour of the metal is dull reddish. Similar buttons have been recorded from Torksey Parish, Lincolnshire and Shalfleet Parish, Isle of Wight. See Portable Antiquities Scheme finds: DENO-608296 and IOW-3B5026. Read 2005 ('Metal Buttons c.900 BC - c. AD 1700' 30) suggests that these type of buttons are sixteenth century although they may be as early as the late fifteenth century (see ref. 110).
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