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Description: | Possible button of Medieval date. The object is sub-spherical in shape, with four, circular, unevenly spaced, flattened facets. The base of the object is flattened, with a slight groove in its centre. The object appears to match descriptions of late 13th to mid-14th century buttons in Read's (2005, pp.21-22) 'Metal Buttons', which would have had a separate embedded copper-alloy wire shank. This would explain the groove on the base of the object; the shank may have been embedded here and broken away at some point. Read (ibid.) also points out that 'these buttons frequently have a high-tin content or a polished tin coating, both of which may create an appearance of silver' and the object's patina, plus glimpses of silvery patches where it has been scratched, do indeed both point to a high tin content. Read (ibid.) does also mention that this style of button was possibly in use until the Post-Medieval period, and similar buttons with high tin content have been dated to the 16th and 17th centuries. Therefore, due to the lack of further diagnostic features, this object has been attributed a wide date range.
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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