Record ID: IOW-5E0822
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval - Post Medieval composite copper alloy wire and lead alloy button, c.AD 1400-1800. This button is comprised of two parts, a spherical lead alloy bead and a copper wire. Both ends of the wire wrap around the lead sphere to form an attachment loop. There is no evidence of decoration.
Created on: Monday 4th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-F78520
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small early 19th century livery button depicting the arms of the Talbot Baronetcy, of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Belfast in the County of Antrim (a lion facing left on a hat with baronet's crown above). The reverse maker's mark reads FIRMIN & CO LONDON around the soldered looped shank.
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 4th March 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-F7504D
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small 19th or 20th century livery button, the round shank of which projects through and retains three layers of dark blue / black felt or other cloth which has a row of brown stitching across it. The crest is a mount with two short flagstaffs with pennons, between which emerges a dexter arm in armour, embowed and wreathed around the upper part with a ribbon of a second, grasping in the hand a broken tilting spear.
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 4th March 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-F72E79
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early to mid 19th century gilded livery button depicting a rearing stag pierced with an arrow (demi stag, attired, vulned in the shoulders). The maker's mark is obscured by corrosion but probably reads [Firmin] 153 Strand, London, in a ring around a bent soldered looped shank on the reverse.
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 4th March 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-F71158
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late 19th century copper alloy livery button, depicting a rearing horse (demi horse guteé, maned and hoofed). The reverse has a loop shank partially encased in a large ferric concretion nodule. The maker's mark is partially obscured by this, but reads [...]WELDON [...](L)ONDON.
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 4th March 2020
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Record ID: HESH-8CCC68
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver plated cast copper alloy button. The button is circular in plan and D shaped in cross section. The front face is decorated and this consists of a central raised boss around which a series of four encircling zones extend. These zones of decoration are annulets, a ring of triangles, a raised circlet and another ring of annulets. The reverse is flat and plain with no sign of tinning / plating an applied copper alloy loop is fixed at the mid-point. The button measures: 6.15mm thick, 24.4mm in diameter and weigh 29.4 grams
Created on: Tuesday 18th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 26th June 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LVPL-F0F645
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two copper-alloy post-medieval buttons of different sizes, silvered on their fronts. Both are in similar condition, with their silvered surfaces delaminating from the main body. These bodies are corroded, producing the green corrosion products typical of copper alloys. The attachment loops on the reverses of both are broken off. These objects are recorded together as they came from the same hole, possibly from a garment that decayed in situ. Larger button:- 23.5 mm diameter, 0.4mm depth, 2.25 g Smaller button:- 14.5mm diameter, 1mm depth, 1.10g
Created on: Monday 28th January 2019
Last updated: Friday 30th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blakenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-034B33
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button consisting of a solid plano-convex head and an integral non-drilled loop. Diameter 8.8 - 9.9mm. Length 9.6mm. 16th century.
Created on: Monday 22nd September 2014
Last updated: Monday 22nd September 2014
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Record ID: CORN-AFED05
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, solid, die-cut copper alloy two-piece livery button embossed with the head of a unicorn which locally is the crest of the Bassets, and was worn on the uniform of coachmen and the like. The button was probably originally silvered, as it is now corroded and blackened in places. The back of the button has the base of a copper alloy wire attachment loop still remaining in the centre with the backmark FIRMINS above and LONDON below, dating its manufacture to c.1879-1904. The Basset family lived at Tehidy until the 1890s and this button is like others found in better condition…
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2012
Last updated: Friday 21st September 2012
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Record ID: CORN-AD6552
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilt copper alloy, solid, die-cut, two-piece livery button depicting the design of a porcupine passant left with the motto above 'VIRES AGMINIS UNUS HABET' which translates in to 'one has the strength of an army'. This crest and motto are associated with the Grylls family of Launceston and Lanreath in Cornwall (Ivall & Pascoe, 1979, 45). There is a separate soldered copper alloy wire loop in the centre of the back of the button and the backmark reads: I. JACKSON BIRMINGHAM. The National Archives in Kew mentions a button-maker by the name of Joseph Jackson from Birmingham in a 1792 ent…
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2012
Last updated: Friday 21st September 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-11DE97
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two Medieval to Post-medieval tinned copper-alloy buttons with soldered loops. One button (9.45mm in length, 9.1mm in diameter) has a copper-alloy loop which survives, the other buttons (7.95mm in length and 10.05mm in diameter) loop is missing, iron corrosion is visible where the loop would have projected from the reverse. The buttons are broadly oval in plan and broadly D shaped in cross section. A combined weight is provided below.
Created on: Thursday 26th July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 7th August 2012
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Record ID: NLM-A014F4
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Button fragment. Cast front of a flat discoid button with rim on the back; the stub of a separate, possibly ferrous metal, loop is retained by a boss on the back. Suggested date: Modern, 1800-1900. Diameter: 33mm, Thickness (at rim): 2mm, Weight: 9.87gms.
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 10th January 2013
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Record ID: WILT-667C56
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy button of Post-medieval to modern date, the loop is missing. The button is circular in plan the front is undecorated and pitted, the reverse is undecorated, remnants of the loop survive. The button is 14.95mm in diameter, 2.2mm thick and weighs 1.63 grams.
Created on: Sunday 6th May 2012
Last updated: Sunday 6th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Calne Without', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-642B47
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy post medieval button, probably of fifteenth- or sixteenth-century date. Square pyramidal head with a flat base. The shank is somewhat off-centre but is part of the same casting as the head. the shannk is rectangular in section and the stem is only slightly narrower than the loop, tapering to its narrowest where it joins the head. There is a circular hole drilled through it. The head is decorated on tis upper surface with raised ridges extending to each corner. This creates four panels, within each of these is a design which corrosion has rendered difficult to interpret. T…
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 15th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-FBCB32
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy button diameter 17mm, thickness 10mm, weight 3.85g. Plain circular flat disc with an integral loop. Date 16th century.
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 11th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bristol', grid reference and parish protected.