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Description: | Incomplete, cast copper alloy post medieval button. This button is globular, hollow and openwork. It has six triangular perforations above, set around a raised nipple, with six triangular perforations below, four of which are blocked with corrosion product. The integral loop is circular and is missing a portion of loop to one side. The object is abraded with the original surface missing. It now has a green and brown patina. It is 16.12mm long, 10.9mm in diameter and weighs 1.50g. Buttons of this type date from the 16th or 17th centuries. An exact example can be seen in Margeson, 1993, Norwich Households, figure 11, number 102. | 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: | 1500
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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