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Record ID: SOMDOR-07E574
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The plate of a small copper alloy composite button with missing shank, dating from the 17th-18th century. It is discoidal and conical in shape, with convex upper surface and concave under. The decoration comprises four heart shaped loops radiating from the central peak. No exact parallel has been found for the decoration, but this type of composite button is generaly dated to the 17th-18th centuries (Read, 2005, 74-85). This button has a diameter of 15.54mm, is 5.05mm high and weighs 1.68g.
Created on: Monday 12th February 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Misterton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOMDOR-07C121
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy button dating from the 17th century. It is cast in one piece with an integral drilled shank. The button is discoidal, convex upper surface and concave under. The shank has a rounded end. The decoration comprises a central six-petalled flower surrounded by free-flowing curvilinear lines formed from small crescents. No exact parallel has been found for the decoration, but this type of button is generaly dated to the 17th century (Read, 2005, 36-49). This button has a diameter of 21.53mm, is 8.00mm high overall and weighs 4.95g.
Created on: Monday 12th February 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Misterton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOMDOR-079794
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large copper alloy button dating from the 17th century. It is cast in one piece with an integral drilled shank. The button is discoidal, convex upper surface and concave under. The shank is rectangular in shape with a rounded end. The decoration comprises a central five-petalled flower with four lines of crescents radiating from it and four large crescents between. The space betwen the main elements of the design is filled with a shading of small annulets. No exact parallel has been found for the decoration, but this type of button is generaly dated to the 17th century (Read, 2005, 3…
Created on: Monday 12th February 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Misterton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOMDOR-075D07
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large copper alloy button dating from the 17th century. It is cast in one piece with an integral drilled shank. The button is discoidal, convex upper surface and concave under. The damaged shank is trapezoid in shape with a slighty rounded end. The decoration comprises dots and annulets forming a six-petalled flower with fleurets between the petals. The border is scuffed and not clearly visible but may consist of crescents. The decoration is very similar to an example from East Devon dated to the 17th century (Read, 2005, 42, no. 143) although that example has only four petals and th…
Created on: Monday 12th February 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Misterton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOMDOR-06A484
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large copper alloy button dating from the 17th century. It is cast in one piece with an integral drilled shank. The button is discoidal, flat and with rectangular section. The shank is rounded. The decoration comprises central circle and dot and an engraved hached four-blade impeller with a circle and dot in between their blades, within a curvilinear border. The decoration is very similar to three examples from South Somerset dated to the 17th century (Read, 2005, 34-5, nos. 117-9). This button has a diameter of 24.26mm, the shank is 5.54mm long, the button is 7.78mm high overall and…
Created on: Monday 12th February 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Misterton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOMDOR-066B48
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small copper alloy button dating from the 17th-18th century. It is cast in one piece with an integral drilled shank. The button is discoidal, flat and with rectangular section. The shank is rounded. The decoration comprises an engraved six-petalled flower with pointed stamens within a curvilinear border. The size, shape and decoration is very similar to three examples from South Somerset dated to the 17th-18th century (Read, 2005, 34-5, nos. 120-2). This button has a diameter of 15.55mm, the shank is 5.82mm long, the button is 8.31mm high overall and weighs 2.89g.
Created on: Monday 12th February 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Misterton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOMDOR-611D02
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast composite two piece lead/tin alloy button with separate embedded drawn iron wire shank (17th century). The button is discoidal in shape and flat. The decoration is dificult to see but comprises at the very least, two concentric relief circles, with a pattern between. The edge is ragged and flaking, the looped shank is broken and corroded. A good parallel from North Dorset is described in Read's 'Metal Buttons', p.101, no.400.
Created on: Monday 30th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOMDOR-08FEE0
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late medieval copper alloy button (late 15th-16th centuries). The button is discoidal and solid with a convex front and flat back. It is decorated with a central pellet and a clockwise 8-bladed impeller. It has a rectangular-section sub-lozenge shaped shank. The object has a diameter of 12.06mm and is 14.74mm long (shank length 10.34mm)and weighs 2.84g.
A good parallel for this button is recorded in Read (2005, no. 112), although this example is approximately 1mm smaller in diameter than Read's.
Created on: Thursday 26th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-CECF25
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An 18th century cast copper alloy button with central iron boss. A radiating pattern of raised slightly curving rays, widening towards the edge, are separated by lines of punched identations. the reverse is concave with a central cone shank, distinctive of the 18th century, retaining the rusted remains of an iron loop for attachment.
Created on: Friday 29th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Cattistock', grid reference and parish protected.
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