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Description: | Late Medieval bone button. The button is circular with a slightly conical front and flat back and a circular hole running through the centre from front to back. There is a chip out of one edge. There are parallel strirations covering about half of the back, possibly the remains of sawing. The front is decorated with four incised straight lines running diagonally from the central hole to the edge at irregular intervals. There are also four incised ring and dot patterns near the edge, these are again irregularly spaced and in two cases overlap the lines. It is 16.4mm in diameter, 3.9mm thick and weighs 0.86 grams.MacGregor, (1985: 102) discussed bone buttons and beads and suggests buttons are relatively rare finds, possibly due to differential survival, although many bones from which circular buttons have been removed have been found on Late Medieval urban sites (ibid p.101).
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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