Rights Holder: Somerset County Council
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Unique ID: SOM-D1A454
Object type certainty: Certain
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Modern cast copper alloy livery button. The button is slightly convex on the front and concave on the back and the front has a white metal coating. On the front is a raised design of a elephants head facing left and rising from a coronet. The back is worn with no visible makers mark and a seperate copper alloy loop attached in the centre. It is 25.5mm in diameter, 1.5mm thick excluding the loop, 6.6mm including and weighs 4.45 grams.
Several familys used the elephant head as a crest but various branches of the Knollys/Knowles used the elephant rising from a coronet so it is probably one of that family (Squires 1976: plate 47).
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MODERN
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1750
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 6.6 mm
Weight: 4.45 g
Diameter: 25.5 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st August 2011
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Other reference: SCC reciept 20846
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: White metal coated
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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