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Description: | A complete, Post Medieval, cast, possible high tin content copper alloy, composite two piece button with seperate embedded drawn copper alloy wire shank. Discoidal, solid, convex front, probably with a central pimple. Slightly convex plain back, polished tin surface with a circular-section looped shank. There are several patches of pale green, pitted corrosion including the central pellet or pimple. The button is likely to date to the 17th Century. Ref. Detector Finds, Gordon Bailey, Greenlight Publishing 1992, page 18-27 no. 16, Buttons and Fasteners 500BC-AD1840, Gordon Bailey, Greenlightn Publishing 2004, page 35 Fig.'s 8.19, 8.20 & 8.22 and Metal Buttons c.900BC-c.1700, Brian Read, Portculis Publishing 2008, page 75 no. 301 & 315. The button is 13.72mm long, 12.82mm wide, 13.72mm thick, diameter 12.82mm and weighs 4.8g.
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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