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BUTTON
Unique ID: CORN-16511E
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Cast pewter flat one-piece button with the base of an integral undrilled shank that is 2 mm in diameter on the back. The upper face of the button is decorated with ring of eighteen raised pellets as a border around a plain, slightly domed interior.
Read (2005) illustrates a very similar small lead alloy button with a border of eighteen raised pellets from South-East Dorset, on page 100, no.393, which is dated from the 15th century.
Egan & Pritchard (2002) illustrate a flat lead alloy button with a similar border of pellets, and a shank with a loop on a stem, on page 275, fig.178, no.1381, which is dated from the 15th century.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 1.7 mm
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight: 0.25 g
Diameter: 6.5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 23rd August 2008 - Monday 25th August 2008
Rally details.
This object was found at Firle Rally 5
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Sussex (County)
District: Wealden (District)
Parish or ward: Berwick (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ5104
Four figure Latitude: 50.81586901
Four figure longitude: 0.14212617
1:25K map: TQ5104
1:10K map: TQ50SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egan, G. and Pritchard, F. | 2002 | Dress Accessories, c.1150-c.1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London) (2002) | London | HMSO | 275, fig.178 | no.1381 | |
| Read, B. | 2005 | Metal Buttons c. 900 BC - c. AD 1700 | Langport | Portcullis Publishing | 100 | no.393 |
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