Record ID: SUR-8F9F1C
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flat discoidal pewter button of 18th century date. The front has an incised hexafoil / daisy wheel design in a beaded border. The reverse has an integrally cast loop shank.
Created on: Friday 12th April 2024
Last updated: Sunday 14th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-5A9B9D
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete discoidal pewter button of post medieval (late 16th-18th century) date. The front is undecorated aside from a groove around the exterior edge. The reverse has a casting seam and a stump for an integrally cast loop shank.
Created on: Monday 4th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-32C07C
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pewter button of post medieval date, 13mm in diameter, with an integrally cast loop shank. The face of the button is convex and takes the form of a hexafoil rosette, with a central boss comprised of an inset blue glass bead surrounded by six lobes also containing blue glass beads; these are interspersed with smaller sepals. The inset beads are around 2.2mm in diameter and some are partially obscured by the cast metal, suggesting that the casting was done with the beads already placed in the mould. The reverse has a casting seam and a loop shank, now folded flat.
Created on: Monday 21st August 2023
Last updated: Monday 21st August 2023
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Record ID: SUR-67540B
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pewter button for the East London Militia. The front shows a crown over the Arms of the City of London with a scroll below 'East London Militia' (Ripley 145). The reverse has a domed centre with a stump of an iron wire loop shank. The absence of the "Royal" prefix to the name dates this button to 1794-1804.
Created on: Tuesday 18th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Record ID: SUR-66980C
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pair of Georgian Enlisted man's pewter miliary buttons for the 26th Regiment of Foot (later the Royal Cameronians after 1786). Both have numerals 26 surrounded by a wreath. One button is 16mm in diameter, the other is 12.8mm in diameter. The smaller has a stump for an integrally cast loop on the reverse, the larger has a domed centre with a stump for an iron wire loop shank.
Created on: Tuesday 18th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Record ID: SUR-66432C
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Georgian cast pewter military tunic button for the Coldstream Guards (enlisted men). The front of the button bears an eight pointed Garter Star emblem with a cross at the centre and the legend COLDSTREAM GUARDS on the garter. The reverse has a domed stump for a separate wire loop shank (now lost) with maker's mark *COVENT GARDEN NOTTING around. 
Created on: Tuesday 18th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Record ID: DEV-61EFCF
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead/tin alloy button of post-medieval date, c. 17th century. A composite, discoidal, two-piece button with a solid convex front and a flat back. It is undecorated apart from a small knop at the centre of the convex front. There are two side-by-side depressions centrally located on the rear where the missing looped shank would have attached. Measurements: diameter 13.60 mm, thickness 4.07 mm, weight 2.13 g. Similar examples are recorded in Read, B, 2005, Metal Buttons c. 900 BC - c. AD 1700, p. 76, nos. 304 & 305.
Created on: Thursday 18th May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th May 2023
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Record ID: SUR-425639
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast tin alloy (pewter) button with a flat discoidal head of 17.2mm diameter and an integral shank with circular loop. The head is worn and incomplete and no decoration is evident. Circa 16th-17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 28th September 2022
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Record ID: WAW-566A28
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead or tin alloy (pewter) button dating to the Post Medieval period (c. AD 1500-1700). The object is discoidal with a convex face and flat reverse. The face is decorated with a cast sexfoil with central pellet set withiin in a raised lip border around the edge of the button. All decorative details are in relief. The reverse has the remains of an integral attachement loop and a casting line in the centre. The object is mid-grey in colour. For a comparable example see Read (2010: 79) no. 301.  The overall dimensions are as follows: 15.76mm in diameter, 5.31mm i…
Created on: Monday 18th July 2022
Last updated: Thursday 25th August 2022
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Record ID: NARC-A7A3CB
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete tin alloy Button of Medieval to Post-Medieval date (AD 1200-1600). The object is a globular button, of composite form, and is bi-convex with a central rectangular aperture where a separate wire loop, now missing, would have projected from the back of the object. Height: 7.29mm, Diameter: 9.60mm, Weight: 2.8g The metal is grey in colour due to polished tin surface or high tin content. Similar buttons have been found in archaeological contexts dated to the 13th and 14th centuries, although this style did continue into at least the early post-medieval period (Re…
Created on: Tuesday 10th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2022
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Record ID: NARC-A385C2
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete tin alloy Button of Medieval to Post-Medieval date (AD 1200-1600). The object is a globular button, of composite form, and is bi-convex with a central separate wire loop projecting from the back of the object. Height: 9.95mm, Diameter: 10.58mm, Weight: 3.4g The metal is grey in colour due to polished tin surface or high tin content. Similar buttons have been found in archaeological contexts dated to the 13th and 14th centuries, although this style did continue into at least the early post-medieval period (Read 2010, 26-7). Read, B. 2010. Metal buttons: …
Created on: Tuesday 10th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2022
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Record ID: SUR-27EB05
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A badly corroded and incomplete pewter military button of the 20th (East Devonshire) Regt of Foot dating to c. 1830-1855. The face depicts the numerals XX within a wreath with a crown above. The reverse has an iron loop shank soldered on.
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 4th May 2022
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Record ID: SF-B00BB6
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval tin-alloy button dating to circa AD 1550-1700. The button is flat and discoidal. Its front face is decorated with two concentric incised borders, an inner and outer, 5mm apart. Between the borers is an incised floriate motif. In the centre is a 7 pointed star with incised radiating swirls emerging from it. On the reverse is a central separately made copper-alloy loop Similar buttons are depicted in Read 2008: nos 326-358. Diameter: 30.5mm; Thickness: 8.2mm; Weight: 8.88g.
Created on: Monday 4th April 2022
Last updated: Monday 4th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Kelsale cum Carlton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-AFFDCC
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval tin-alloy button dating to circa AD 1550-1700. The button is flat and discoidal. Its front face is decorated with two concentric punched dot circles, the outer circle following the circumference of the button and the inner circle positioned 2.9mm in from the outer. Between the punched circles is an incised zig-zag design. On the reverse is a central circular, D-shaped in section, soldered platform which has a separately made copper-alloy loop affixed to it. Similar buttons are depicted in Read 2008: nos 326-358. Diameter: 24.5mm; Thickness: 8.7mm; W…
Created on: Monday 4th April 2022
Last updated: Monday 4th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Kelsale cum Carlton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-C64FE6
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy button, c.18th century. A plain, round button with a central raised circle. The reverse has the remains of the hoop attachment. There are no makers marks or decorations on any part of this object.
Created on: Thursday 24th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 18th May 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-3EFEA4
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A composite copper alloy button of 18th century date, 16.6mm in diameter which has been partially crushed. The face has a moulded design of a flower with six rounded petals and six pointed petals which are offset around a cross hatched centre. The rear has a single blow hole and a soldered loop shank. There are traces of a white metal coating.
Created on: Friday 28th January 2022
Last updated: Friday 28th January 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-3EF134
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead or tin alloy (pewter) button with a convex discoidal head of 15.6mm diameter and an integral shank with circular loop which is bent. The face is undecorated. Circa 16th-17th century.
Created on: Friday 28th January 2022
Last updated: Friday 28th January 2022
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Record ID: SUR-1D3E76
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete pewter military button of the 3rd Scot's Guards, dating to c1780. The face depicts a star with, at the centre, the letters SG with a thistle between. The reverse has a domed central attachment for an iron wire loop shank, now lost. Any maker's mark is no longer legible.
Created on: Tuesday 21st December 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd December 2021
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Record ID: HAMP-41B491
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded post Medieval pewter button, 17.5mm in diameter. The face is slightly convex and decorated with a moulded six-petalled flower at the apex, from which radiate 12 rays, set against a field of fine concentric lines. The reverse has a stump of a corroded iron loop shank.
Created on: Monday 11th October 2021
Last updated: Monday 11th October 2021
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Record ID: WAW-BD6468
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete tin alloy (pewter) button dating to the Post Medieval period (c. AD 1500 -1700). The object is circular in plan and flat in section. The edges of the button are chipped and no decorative pattern is apparent on the face. On the reverse the shank has completely broken away. The object is mid-grey in colour.  A comparable example can be seen in Read (2021: 75) no. 280.  The overall dimensions are as follows: 21.24mm in diameter, 3.00mm in thickness and 3.32g in weight. 
Created on: Tuesday 17th August 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 18th January 2023
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