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Description: | A complete, Post Medieval, cast, copper alloy, one-piece, medium sized button with integral undrilled shank. The front and back of the button are both domed or biconvex. It is a solid, undecorated, circular button with simple circular shank of circular cross-section. The button is complete and was probably once gilded but there is now quite a lot of surface corrosion. This button is likely to date to 1590-1610. Ref. Buttons and Fasteners 500BC-AD1840, Gordon Bailey, Greenlight Publishing 2004, page 22-29 fig. 7.5 and Metal Buttons c.900BC-c.AD1700, Brian Read, Portculis Publishing 2008, page 53 no. 191 & 192. This button measures 14.55mm long, 12.43mm wide, 12.09mm thick, diameter 12.43 and weighs 5.2g.
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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