Rights Holder: Somerset County Council
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Unique ID: SOM-A69B38
Object type certainty: Certain
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Post medieval cast lead-tin alloy button probably dating to the 17th-18th century. About three fifths of the button and the loop is lost to an old break. The front is slightly convex and decorated with a raised, cast design of a pellet border containing six symetrically arranged tendrils with two short branches and a longer branch curving in from the outer edge, the longer branches bifucate into two curls, the central curls from each branch create a ring around a central pellet giving a flower like appearence. The back is rough but appears plain with a central irregular indent where the loop has been lost. It is now 19.7mm by 14.9mm and 3.2mm thick; it weighs 1.81 grams.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Quantity: 1
Length: 19.7 mm
Width: 14.9 mm
Thickness: 3.2 mm
Weight: 1.81 g
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 17th June 2010
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Other reference: SCC020759
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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