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Description: | A corroded cast copper-alloy button of post-medieval date (c. 16th century AD). The button consists of a solid, shallow plano-convex head and a central integral shank that protrudes for 8.4mm with a hole towards the end of the shank to which the button would have been fastened to the item of clothing. The head has a small central pellet, radiating out from which are eight scrolled petals, all within a raised ropework border. Such floral or solar decoration on buttons with similar bosses can be seen in Bailey (1995, 27; ref. 7.19) The examples illustrated in this book are dated to the 16th or 17th centuries. This example is a dark-red/brown colour generally covered with an overlying mid-green and off-white corrosion product. The end of the shank has been bent to one side.
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