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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy button of post-medieval date. The metal is an alloy of copper and zinc, often called 'tombac', which gives a silvery appearance to the object. The button is circular in plan and domed in profile, being only the upper half of a composite button. The button has an engraved design of a sunburst on the front, with overlapping scalloped lines around the central design and extending to the outer edges of the button; some of these lines incroach on the main design giving the impression of crude, or bodged, workmanship. The button top is hollow and would have been joined to a lower half, probably of iron as corrcosion on the top half suggests, a common practice with tombac buttons of this date. Similar buttons of this type with similar designs have been recorded on this database (see for example SUR-xxxx). They date to the 18th century AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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