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BUTTON

Unique ID: YORYM-45B552

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

An incomplete copper-alloy discoidal button of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1600-1700. The button is circular in shape and flat. It is decorated with a flower motif consisting of approximately twelve petals joined by looped inner cusps. The flower is set within a beaded border. All other decorative detail is obscured by wear. Faint traces of gilding remain on the outer surface of the button. The reverse bears a central attachment for a separate embedded drawn copper-alloy wire shank, which is lost. The reverse is undecorated.

The metal is brown in colour and worn. The button is 33.7mm in diameter, 1.8mm thick, and weighs 5.9g.

Similarly decorated and constructed buttons are illustrated and discussed in Read (2010) pp.106-107 and are dated to the 17th century AD, although no similar parallel with a flat front could be found. Similar buttons have been recorded on the database as YORYM-DDE87E, KENT-F1104D, and SOM-826263.

Ref:

Read, B., 2005 Metal Buttons c. 900 BC - c. AD 1700 Langport: Portcullis Publishing.

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 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1.8 mm
Weight: 5.9 g
Diameter: 33.7 mm

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: YMT : E05957

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Gilded

Spatial metadata

Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: North Yorkshire (County)
District: Scarborough (District)
Parish or ward: Seamer (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: TA0183
Four figure Latitude: 54.23275562
Four figure longitude: -0.45201029
1:25K map: TA0183
1:10K map: TA08SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Character undetermined

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Read, B.	2005	Metal Buttons c. 900 BC - c. AD 1700	Langport	Portcullis Publishing	pp.106-107.

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Recording Institution: YORYM
Created: 5 years ago
Updated: 5 years ago

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