Record ID: LVPL-69F8B4
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: CHESHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rally ID: 219 Post Medieval: A complete cast copper alloy tinned button, with an integral shank & circular loop. The front is flat and undecorated. Consistent with 16th to 17th Century dating. Diameter: 18.61mm Thickness: 8.84mm Weight: 2.8 grams Find was photographed.
Created on: Monday 30th January 2012
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tattenhall Rally 2011', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-674CE6
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead button dating to the Post Medieval period. The button is circular in plan and domed. It has two cylindrical protrusions on the reverse that have been bent out of shape, but would have been used to attach the button to clothing. The front face depicts a wheel design, there is a central raised circle around the top of the dome with three raised lines vertical lines at right angles. In between each of the lines and below the perimeter of the circle are raised pellets. The object is well preserved, although the decoration is now faint. It weighs 29.3g and measures 26.27mm in diamet…
Created on: Monday 30th January 2012
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Record ID: SWYOR-179557
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: NORTH YORKSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval to Post-Medieval cast copper alloy button dating from about 1450-1600. The button has an integral undrilled shank. The front of the button is domed and the back of the dome is flat. It is solid, the decoration on the dome appearing to have been a cross and pellet design. It has a medium green patina, with a dark brown patina on the dome within the design. Please also see Bailey's (2004) Buttons and Fasteners , page 25, figure 7.13. A similar button is found on the PAS database at record ID: KENT-242E42. Length: 14.5mm; Width: 10.2mm; Weight: 2.85g
Created on: Thursday 26th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 30th January 2012
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Record ID: NLM-020D50
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: LINCOLNSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy with gilding Button. Composite nearly plano-convex hollow button with stubs from a drawn wire loop in the back, which was a separate plate. The front bears an impressed design of closely spaced crosses, of which a few retain traces of gilding. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1750-1800. Diameter: 12.2mm, Height: 7.9mm, Weight: 1.16gms
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2012
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Record ID: NMS-004E98
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: NORFOLK
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval composite hollow silver button. Domed upper half soldered to slightly convex lover half which has two blow-holes and separate soldered loop. Part of a very worn and now illegible makers mark stamped on the underside. circa 17 th century. Diameter 14mm. Height of head 10mm. Total height including loop 15mm. Weight 2.34g. A similar example can be found from Hambledon, Buckinghamshire (2008 TAR, ref. 387, p. 351; 2008 T435; PAS-LON85F505).
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beeston with Bittering', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D657C1
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: NORFOLK
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver button with hollow bi-convex head, half of which is now crumpled, with a soldered wire loop and at least one blow hole on the reverse. Height of head 10mm. Diameter 12mm. Weight 1.9g. c. 17th century.
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Keswick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D5F031
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: NORFOLK
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver button. Only the circular back-plate survives, with two blow holes, scar where missing loop was attached with solder, and a makers mark stamped twice, either H, T or I. Possibly 17 th century. Diameter 12mm.
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foulsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-97CC06
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: LINCOLNSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Possible Button. Cast conical concavo-convex front, perhaps from a composite button; irregularities within the apex probably marks the loss of a loop. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1750. Diameter: 21.8mm, Height: 10.3mm, Thickness: 1.2mm, Weight: 4.21gms.
Created on: Friday 20th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 30th January 2012
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Record ID: NLM-94C315
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Button. Cast concavo-convex discoid button with the stub of an integrally cast loop on the back. Suggested dateL Post-Medieval, 1650-1750. Diameter: 13.2mm, Thickness (front): 2.1mm, Weight: 2.11gms.
Created on: Friday 20th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 30th January 2012
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Record ID: SUR-83EB63
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A uniform button of the PETWORTH VOLUNTEERS dating from the early 19th century. The letters surround a crown.
Created on: Thursday 19th January 2012
Last updated: Friday 20th January 2012
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Record ID: ESS-81BA10
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: ESSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval lead alloy button. It is circular in plan. The front surface is domed, and the reverse is very slightly domed. there is an integrally cast attachment loop on the reverse. Diameter:11.91. Length: 17.84mm. Weight: 5.6 grams.
Created on: Thursday 19th January 2012
Last updated: Thursday 12th April 2012
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Record ID: ESS-81B622
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: ESSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy button. The body is circular in plan, with a domed surface, and a slightly domed reverse. The body is hollow. There is an integrally cast attachment loop extending from the centre of the reverse. Diameter: 10.99mm. Length: 13.29mm. Weight: 2.9 grams.
Created on: Thursday 19th January 2012
Last updated: Thursday 12th April 2012
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Record ID: LON-6F8475
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: GREATER LONDON
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval copper alloy composite button. The front and reverse are flat; the front is decorated with a fifteen petalled flower inside a triple border decorated with alternating trios of smalls pellets and singular larger pellets. The reverse is covered in compacted corrosion but the attachment loop is made from a different copper alloy to the body of the button. The button measures 14.4mm (diameter) x 8.0mm (length) and weighs 1.54g. The construction and style of the button suggest it is of late 17th to 18th century AD date.
Created on: Wednesday 18th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 2nd April 2012
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Record ID: SUR-57A458
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A military button of dating from the period of the Napoleonic Wars. The button shows a swan, the county's symbol, with its wings outstretched, between the word BUCKS YEOMEN.
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 17th January 2012
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Record ID: WILT-573D56
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: WILTSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post-Medieval to Early Modern (c.1650-1800) copper alloy button, missing much of its integral drilled shank. It measures 27.36mm in diameter, stands 5.68mm high and weighs 7.6g. The button is hemi-spherical, being concave to the reverse. The outer surface has moulded raised decoration in the form of a central pellet with six semi-circular 'petals' around at the centre, and around this four equidistant and worn stems lying at an angle with a leaf at the base and trefoil (or tulip-like) head at the other end. Read (2005, p.36) suggests a mid-17th century date for this …
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 17th January 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tilshead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-415321
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: KENT
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy button, of Post Medieval dating (17th to 18th Centuries AD). The button consists of a flat circular head or front, with a looped wire shank to the rear. Signs of decoration are present on the front of the button a circular central plane surrounded but a pelleted boarder. The back is plain and undecorated. The shank consists of a loop of copper alloy wire, complete but folded over. A similar button can be seen on the database: LVPL-E2E433 The button is 31.5mm in diameter, 0.9mm thick and weighs 4.8 grams.
Created on: Monday 16th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Queensborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-D9CA63
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: HAMPSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded cast copper-alloy button of post-medieval date (c. 16th century AD). The button consists of a solid, shallow plano-convex head and a central integral shank that protrudes for 8.4mm with a hole towards the end of the shank to which the button would have been fastened to the item of clothing. The head has a small central pellet, radiating out from which are eight scrolled petals, all within a raised ropework border. Such floral or solar decoration on buttons with similar bosses can be seen in Bailey (1995, 27; ref. 7.19) The examples illustrated in this book are dated to the …
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2012
Last updated: Thursday 19th January 2012
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Record ID: SUR-C58D96
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: SURREY
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two 19th century livery buttons (only no.1 photographed). 1. Two arms holding a wreath. Morewood family of Alfreton, Derbyshire. 2. A greyhound facing left. Palmer family of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 10th January 2012
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Record ID: SWYOR-C3D377
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early Post-Medieval cast lead alloy button dating from about 1500-1700. The loop on the reverse is missing. The button face is decorated with a raised six-petalled flower - each petal is roughly lozenge-shaped - and raised central knop. The individual petals and the central knop are surrounded by raised borders. Each petal has its own surrounding border, which does not meet its neighbour. All petal borders combine to create a raised circular border around the central knop. On the outside edge, between petal borders, is a pellet (some having worn off). The reverse is plai…
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 14th February 2012
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Record ID: WMID-724315
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: STAFFORDSHIRE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast probable lead alloy button of post-medieval date, dating from the 16th or 17th centuries AD. The face of the button is domed and decorated with a moulded flower with a central ring and dot and nine lozenge shaped petals. An circular attachment loop emerges from an integrally cast shank on the reverse. The button measures 13.36 mm in diameter, 14.48 mm long and weighs 3.4 grams. It has a grey patina.
Created on: Friday 6th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 9th January 2012
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