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Description: | Post medieval cast copper-alloy button with a convex front and integral attachment loop set off centre in the concave back. The front of the button is decorated with an incised design of a flower, possibly a thistle, with leaves around it; surrounded by a border of punched annulets. The back is plain apart from the loop with some possible iron corrosion to one side. The loop is flat with a semi circular top and has an oval hole through it. The hole appears to have been circular and worn along the top edge to form an oval. It is 25.3mm in diameter, 8.3mm thick including the loop, 4.5mm excluding it and weighs 7.03 grams.Read (2005: 39-45) illustrates a large group of similar buttons with convex fronts, concave back and integral drilled shanks. They have a range of incised and punched decoration, mostly floral or geometric, although none identical to this example. Read (ibid:36) suggests they were fashionable in the mid to late 17th century and may have been used in pairs as cloak fasteners as well as buttons.
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