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Description: | Post Medieval cast lead tin alloy (pewter) button with integral shank which is now broken. The item is circular with breaks and chips around the edge which have removed c.20% of the front. It has a domed front and concave back. The front is decorated with a raised design of an impeller with curved arms radiating out from a central pellet within a plain line border at the edge. The arms are double lines and the central pellet possibly ring and dot. The back has a flattened rim and a slightly off centre raised casting line running across it with a central pellet which is probably the remainder of the integrally cast shank and loop. It measures 18.1 mm by 15.8mm and 2.9 mm in thickness excluding the remains of the loop, 4.7mm including it, and weighs 2.02 g.Read (2005:66-67) illustrates a range of similar lead alloy examples including one with a flat front with a similar impeller design. no. 256, which he dates to the 17th century.
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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