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Description: | Cast copper alloy button. Circular in plan and semicircular in section, this button has a diameter of 22.02mm and weighs 6.97g.The front of the button is decorated with a crude design of punched circles. Six larger circles around a central large circle may represent a flower. Around this central motif are ?garlands? of smaller punched circles that appear to be fairly random. The reverse of the button is concave, with the walls of the button having an irregular thickness. There is an integrally moulded raised circular lug, 7.64mm across, from which rises a shank that is trapezoidal in section. there is a small circular hole through which the threads would have passed. This button is broadly similar to an example in Bailey 1995, Detector Finds, page 19, number 35, though the design is different. Following this example, the button probably dates to the late 15th or 16th century. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1480
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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