Record ID: HESH-A4F046
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete composite hollow button cast in white metal / high tin content or possibly base silver alloy of later 17th or 18th century date. Only the domed front hemisphere is present - it is circular in plan and D shaped in cross section; the reverse is hollow and concave. The upper surface of the button is decorated with a cast design comprising an circular central boss around which a pair of opposing vegetal like C shaped scroll are cast; separated by wedge shaped projections. The upper surface is a mid-grey silver colour whilst the reverse is cased in a mid-green coloured corros…
Created on: Thursday 13th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shipton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-A4AF5D
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a 17th or 18th century copper alloy button. It is part of a cast, die stamped, composite biconvex copper alloy and iron button, probably originally with an integral drilled shank. It consists of the convex, hollow top half only. The component is incomplete, missing c60% of its circumference to a distance of up to c4mm from the edge. It is decorated with a central circle and dot and a clock-wise six-bladed impeller, only partally hatched, within a curvilinear border, and with a lateral rim. Its width varies from 10.8mm ito 8.9mm, it stands 4.6mm high and is up to 1.6mm in t…
Created on: Thursday 13th September 2018
Last updated: Saturday 15th September 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-A289B9
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Button from a Modern date, AD 1842 - 1922. A staff uniform button of The Great Eastern Railway Company, made with a white metal front, and a copper alloy back. The front has that name around the central design of a Dragons wing, in a circle on a Star. It has a diameter of 16.7mm, is 5.78mm thick, and weighs 1.5g. On its reverse are the manufacturers address details, circled around the stump of a missing loop. These appear as :- Chamberlin. Sons & Co. Clothing Contracts. Smith Harrison.
Created on: Thursday 13th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2021
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Record ID: SOM-A27E81
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval lead alloy button dating to the period c.AD 1600-1700. The button is discoidal or slightly hexagonal, with an integrally cast shank projecting from the reverse but now broken c2mm from its base. The front is slightly convex and the back probably originally flat, though the button has been bent at some point such that the back is partially slightly concave. The front of the button has a raised border c1mm in width created by an incised line running around the circumference of the button. This incision displays brown corrosion products rather than the mid-grey of most…
Created on: Thursday 13th September 2018
Last updated: Saturday 15th September 2018
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