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BUTTON
Unique ID: WAW-D54564
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Post Medieval: An incomplete copper alloy button back, of probable 18th Century dating.
It is sub circular in plan. The front may once have an animal design present, or there is a possiblity it is an antiquarian Roman revival button, displaying an image from a Roman coin or a reused coin. The back is plain, with the remains of the attachment loop flattened against the button back.
It is a mid green colour, with an even patina. It has suffered from a high degree of abrasion with the result that any original decorative image on the front of the button has since been lost.
It has a diameter of 16.42mm and is 1.35mm thick. It weighs 0.9g.
The button back is probably of 18th Century dating. There is a slim possibility that it was made of a reused Roman coin as part of the Antiquarian Roman revival tradition, but it is more likely a copper alloy imitation of one.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1.35 mm
Weight: 0.9 g
Diameter: 16.42 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Warwickshire (County)
District: Stratford-on-Avon (District)
Parish or ward: Tanworth-in-Arden (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP1369
Four figure Latitude: 52.318952
Four figure longitude: -1.810705
1:25K map: SP1369
1:10K map: SP16NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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