Record ID: SOM-57D965
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval cast lead tin alloy (pewter) button with integral shank which is now squashed flat. The button is circular with a break along one side removing 15% of the circumference. It has a domed front and concave back. The front is decorated with a raised design of a six bladed impeller (propeller) with curved arms radiating out from a central pellet within a cabled border at the edge. The arms are double lines with diagonal line infilling and the central pellet is now a raised dot. The back has a flattened rim and a slightly off centre raised casting line running across it with t…
Created on: Monday 8th December 2014
Last updated: Friday 12th December 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chedzoy CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-573F51
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval cast copper-alloy button with a convex front and integral attachment loop set centrally in the concave back. The front of the button is decorated with annulets, dots and crescents forming a central foliate, four floral sprays and four bunches of grapes, evenly set. The background, although worn in places, consists of a field of tiny dots.The back is plain apart from the loop. The loop is rectangular in plan and section and had a circular hole drilled through it, now filled with corroded metal. It has a greenish paterna on the front through which the brown pattern shows…
Created on: Monday 8th December 2014
Last updated: Friday 12th December 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chedzoy CP', grid reference and parish protected.