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Description: | 17th century two-piece copper alloy solid button missing its separate embedded shank (two stumps remain).The button is sub-biconvex, the reverse being slightly flatter. The front has a central pellet. The copper alloy has a high-tin shine.Diameter 11.8mm, thickness 8.2mm, weighs 4.45g.Cf. Read, B Metal Buttons c.900 BC - c.AD 1700, p.76 no.309.
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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