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Description: | Incomplete Medieval copper alloy cast one-piece button with integral drilled shank, with roughly half the shank broken and missing.The button is discoidal, solid and slightly plano-convex. It is 19mm in diameter and decorated to the front with a central dot/ hole around which is a single concentric circle. The shank survives to a length c.7mm and the internal piercing of the loop is 5mm in diameter. It weighs 4.93g and the incomplete button stands a height of 9mm.Probably 15th century, although this style of shank does extend into the 18th century.Cf. Read 2005 p.11 no. 24.
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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