Record ID: LON-5C5F35
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A Post Medieval tin button dating early 18th century. Curator's report: Description: flat disc like button, cast with decoration moulded in relief. On the front a sun's face within twelve rays. On the back in relief maker's mark 'IL' on either side of the missing shank. Discussion: Compare an identical button found on the river Thames foreshore, London. See Brian Read 'Metal buttons c900-1700', Langport 2010, No 480. These are dated possibly late 17th or early 18th century. Dora Thornton, British Museum Dimensions: thickness: 4.36mm; diameter: 17.31mm; weight: 3.05g.
Created on: Monday 26th October 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 24th February 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tower Hamlets', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-D4F083
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A Post Medieval gold button dating to the late 15th - very early 16th century. Hazel Forsyth: There are others of a similar type in the Chalcis Treasure. Identification by Hazel Forsyth, Senior Post Medieval Curator, Museum of London Curator's report: Gold artefact, originally a thin cylinder of gold now squashed flat, with two bands of filigree decoration, filigree openwork terminal with traces of enamel. This highly-decorated artefact is difficult to identify and date. It has been suggested that this is the lower part of an earring, but it could also have been pa…
Created on: Monday 8th December 2008
Last updated: Monday 28th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-80E5D4
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A Post Medieval - possibly Modern gold button (late 16th - early 19th century). Small gold button in the shape of a flowerhead, perhaps a daisy, with solid centre and petals forming shallow compartments filled with a composition, perhaps glass inlay, some of which is now missing. Single loop attachment in gold at the centre of the back. Approximately 0.7 cm diameter. This naturalistic flowerhead button is difficult to place. The fine tooling on front suggests age and the working at the back, together with uneven outline, suggests that it has been hand cut not stamped. The …
Created on: Thursday 5th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bermondsey, Rotherhithe and Southwark', grid reference and parish protected.