Record ID: FAKL-AAD9B9
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval cast lead button, circular with a 8.0mm diameter central boss. On its back is an integrally cast loop set on top of a casting seam. Diameter 22.8mm, Thickness 1.8mm, Mass 7.06g. Read (2005, 17) cited parallels from thirteenth to fifteenth century contexts. While Egan and Pritchard ( 1991, Fig. 178) show no parallels for this button there are examples cast using the same three-part mould process.
Created on: Thursday 16th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 16th March 2017
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Record ID: FAKL-AA7208
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval button made from pressed sheet copper alloy. Hollow globular body (dented in one place) into which a copper alloy disc was fixed, in the centre of this disc is a wire loop. Diameter 10.6mm, Height 14.8mm, Mass 1.64g. Read (2005, 97) cites a technologically similar button from a seventeenth century context.
Created on: Thursday 16th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 16th March 2017
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