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Description: | An Early Post-Medieval (1600-1700) cast one-piece copper alloy discoidal button with integral drilled shank. A small fragment of corroded iron remains lodged in the shank piercing. It measures 28.55mm in diameter and stands 7.48mm high. It weighs 9.8g.The button is circular and hollow, of a convex domed form, with an integral D-shaped loop emerging centrally on its lower surface. The upper surface of the button is decorated with a punched foliate design with a border of tin crescent punches. The foliate decoration comprises a central stem with a curving stem (?leaf) either side. All three end in a 'pelta' formed of a large crescent and two smaller ones. Inside the two outer pelta shapes (in the outermost half) is a punched ring-and-dot. Beyond the central pelta four small crescents create a tri-lobe. In the apex is a punched ring-and-dot, below is a grid of small squares from crossing horizontals and verticals. A large crescent is beyond the other two pelta shapes. The area around is filled with circular punches and smaller crescents flank the outside edges of the two curving stems. One stem has a single ring-and-dot at the end.Cf. HAMP-F851E7 for a broadly similar button.Read (2005, p.36) writes that buttons such as this may have been paired and used as cloak fasteners (cf. Read 2005 p.39 no.132). These would have been linked with a copper alloy or iron wire linkage, and would explain the remainder of iron in this particular button.
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