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Description: | An complete Medieval tin button, dating from the late 13th to the mid 14th century. The head of the button is a biconvex shape, and has a polished silver coloured tin surface. From the base of the head there is a seperate oval shaped looped shank attached, with patches of green corrosion, suggesting that the shank is copper alloy. The head measures 11.8mm in diameter, 14.4mm in length, and weighs 6.32g.Two similar examples are illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991: 275, nos. 1386 and 1388) which are dated to c. AD 1230-1260 and c. AD 1270-1350. Another example can be seen in Read 2005, 23, 72.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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