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Description: | A copper-alloy post-medieval hexagonal button with flat top and faceted sides, becoming vertical at the base. The top is decorated with a central flower motif of four small circles in a quatrefoil within a plain ring within a ring of pellets. From this central motif radiates six pairs of grooved lines which flank the angles between the facets and create lines along the sides of each facet. Similar pairs of lines set at right angles to these form an 'inner circle' around the flat top. Above the carination where the angles sides become vertical is a row of punched annulets which connect the ends of the pairs of grooves. In the cell remaining in the centre of each facet is a scrolled motif of stamped Cs and annulets. The button has traces of gilding in the punched areas and a black lacquer coating on the front. The reverse is concave with a slight rim around the edge and the stub of an integral loop in the centre. The loop had a drilled hole thorugh it and now ends in a worn break. The button is 27.4mm by 25.1mm and 7.2mm thick; it weighs 12.40 grams.Similar buttons can be found illustrated in Read (2005, 46; no. 161; previously published in Read 1988; no. 983), and recorded on this database, e.g. LANCUM-D9CEB2 and SOM-85AD97. Read (2005, 36) suggests they may have been used as cloak fasterners and date from the middle to the late 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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