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BUTTON
Unique ID: LANCUM-6C0318
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Cast copper alloy solid one-piece button dating from the late medieval or early post-medieval period, that is the later 15th or 16th century. It is circular in plan and bi-convex in profile, with its integral attachment loop broken off and now missing. The button is undecorated.
Read (2005) illustrates similar buttons on page 51, nos.174-179, which are dated from the late 15th to the 16th century.
Bailey (2004) illustrates similar buttons on page 29, figs.7.36-7.39, which are dated from the late 15th to the 16th century.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1450
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 10 mm
Width: 9 mm
Weight: 2.3 g
Diameter: 10 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st September 2015
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: North West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cumbria (County)
District: Eden (District)
To be known as: Carlisle
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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