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Description: | A cast copper alloy button, dating from the seventeenth century, AD 1650 - 1700. The face of the button is slightly concave and is divided into six segments of unequal size by incised, narrow grooves. Four of these segments are decorated with incised grooves running from the dividing grooves to the rim of the button. The other two segments, which are larger, do not appear to have any decoration, though this is uncertain as they are partly obscured by corrosion products. Rather than decoration, these marks are probably keying for either enamel, or for better adhesion of the separate button front (now missing). The shank projects from the convex reverse. It is flat and sub-rectangular, with a rounded end. It is pierced with a circular attachment hole. The button has a rough, dark green patina. It is 19.7 mm in diameter and 12mm long. It weighs 3.3gm.
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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