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Description: | Medieval solid cast copper alloy button with a thick tin coating. Circular in plan and domed front and back with a definite carination between the sides. There is a seperate very narrow copper alloy wire loop. It is 10.3mm in diameter, 7.8mm thick excluding the loop, 10.9mm including and 3.37 grams. Similar to Egan and Prichard (1991) p.274, fig 178, no.1388 which is from a context dated c.1270-1350 AD. Use of large numbers of such buttons was fashionable in the mid 14th century however similar small buttons were also popular in the 18th to 19th century and can be hard definitively distinguish.
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