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Record ID: NMS-5FE7C2
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Abraded post-medieval copper alloy button composed of an integral non-drilled loop and a solid plano-convex head decorated in relief with a cinquefoil within a beaded border. Comparable with Read 2010, nos. 231-2 (but there is no trace of gilding). Weight 1.47g. Diameter 10.5mm. Length 8mm. 16th century.
Created on: Monday 6th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-5FCD7D
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button with an almost flat head and an integral drilled loop. The head is decorated, within a peripheral groove, with a central punched ring-and-dot impression and with four radiating hearts outlined in punched annulets. This motif is not uncommon on composite buttons (e.g. Read 2010, no. 380; SOMDOR-07E574; HAMP-F55804; HAMP-CF4C4B; IOW-E7B822; PUBLIC-25FAB2), but no other example of its occurrence on a flat one-piece button has been noted. Weight 7.38g. Diameter 23.6mm. Length 10mm. 17th century.
Created on: Monday 6th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 25th May 2023
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Record ID: WMID-5F0573
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead alloy domed button of Late Medieval to Early Post Medieval dating (AD 1400 to AD 1600). The button has a domed circular head, with a central pellet surrounded by a five pointed start, within a curvilinear border. The back of the head is flat with a prominent casting line. The loop is missing. The button has a diameter of 15.3 mm. The head is 4.7 mm thick. It weighs 4.0 g. The button is a light grey colour, with an even surface patina.
Created on: Monday 6th March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th March 2023
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Record ID: BERK-46CB4A
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead button dating to the late medieval or early post medieval period (c.AD1400-1600) The object has been cast and has a circular head. The upper surface has raised, worn, moulded decoration. The reverse of the button is plain and undecorated with two rectangular, off-centre points where a loop would have been attached.
Created on: Sunday 5th March 2023
Last updated: Sunday 5th March 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-205D57
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy 17th Century button, discoidal shaped with convex front, concave back, integral rectangular trapezoid shank with a drilled hole and a slightly rounded end, significantly worn on one side. The button has an incised design with dots and annulments forming a quatrefoil, fleuret headed sepals and bordered with crescents. The condition of the surface of the button is good with a smooth light green verdigris. Two very similar examples are illustrated P46 Figs. 153 and 155 in Read. The finder reports that other 17th Century finds in proximity to th…
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2023
Last updated: Monday 3rd April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Gainsborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-1C6050
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy button. A composite, discoidal,two-piece button with a solid convex front and a missing separate shank. There is a slight knop at the centre of the convex front. The rear is flat with a central depression for the attachment of the missing shank. Date: Post medieval- 17th century Dimensions: 14.60 mm x 4.91 mm Weight: 3.12 g Similar examples are recorded in Read, B, 2005, Metal Buttons c. 900 BC - c. AD 1700, p. 76, nos. 304 & 305,  both have copper alloy wire shanks.
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th March 2023
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Record ID: SUR-079A4D
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a flat, discoidal copper alloy object, originally around 17mm in diameter. The facing side has incised decoration which appears to comprise an equal-armed cross with zig-zag pattern up the narrow arms and annulets in the quarters. There is an incised linear rim around the edge. The other side is blank. The disc thickens slightly towards the centre, with a break across what may be the base of an attachment or shank. Possibly part of a post medieval button.
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2023
Last updated: Saturday 4th March 2023
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Record ID: WAW-F7EAC8
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy button dating to the Post Medieval period (c. AD 1600-1700). The button is discoidal in plan with a convex front and concave reverse. The outer face is undecorated. On thereverse is a simnple looped shank that appears to be integral. The object has a dark greenish-brown patina. Comparable example can be seen in Read (2010: 107). nos 437-9. The button measures 24.5mm in diameter and weighs 3.6g.
Created on: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st March 2023
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Record ID: OXON-F53D3A
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An in complete copper-alloy Tudor button dating to the late fifteenth or sixteenth century AD. The button is formed by a circular shaped and domed head. A rectangular shank extends from the reverse of the head and is truncated by a break at the same point as the circular loop. The head is decorated with incised radiating lines that extend from the central top. The button has a glossy dark green patina. The button is 9.9mm in diameter, 10.6mm thick and weighs 2.43 grams. Practically identical examples of this button is illustrated by Bailey (2004: 25) and also by Read (2005: 36-3…
Created on: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Last updated: Friday 21st April 2023
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Record ID: OXON-F526D9
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy button dating to about AD 1450-1600. The head is circular in plan, a pointed oval in cross section and solid. The integral attachment loop is present projecting from the reverse. This has a short oval cross sectioned shape turning into a circular attatchment loop (c.3mm diameter hole). The button has a dark red sometimes green patina. The button is 10.5mm in diameter, 13.7mm thick and weighs 2.67 grams. See Bailey (2004: 29) and Read (2005: 61-2)  for similar examples and also see other examples on the database including OXON-B77…
Created on: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Last updated: Friday 21st April 2023
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Record ID: SUR-F3934E
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast convex lead alloy post medieval button, 13.4mm in diameter. The domed face is decorated with a a quatrelobe containing five pellets, which is surrounded by radial ridges running to the edge. The revers has a stump of an integrally case loop shank.
Created on: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B9E519
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button with a solid plano-convex head and drilled integral loop, the head moulded in relief with an eight-bladed clockwise impeller around a central pellet, very close to Read 2010, no. 130. Weight 3.64g. Diameter 13.5mm. Length 14.2mm. 16th century.
Created on: Sunday 26th February 2023
Last updated: Sunday 26th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-A1EAC7
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button with a solid plano-convex head and an integral non-drilled loop. Weight 1.48g. Diameter 9.8mm. Length 10mm. 16th century.
Created on: Saturday 25th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd May 2023
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Record ID: DOR-8A52B7
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy button. The button is circular with a convex front and concave back. The front of the button is decorated with design of incised lines, punched annulets and crescents. The design comprises an outer framing band of small overlapping stamped annulets and an inner oval incised line frame with stamped annulets and crescents infilling between them.Inside the inner frame is a cinquefoil flower formed from large stamped annulets and on top of an incised rectangular stem. In the hollowed rear is central integral rectangular shank with a circular drilled p…
Created on: Friday 24th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 13th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broadwindsor', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-756A6E
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button composed of an integral non-drilled loop and a solid plano-convex head decorated in relief with a cinquefoil within a beaded border. Comparable with Read 2010, nos. 231-2 (but there is no trace of gilding). Weight 1.86g. Diameter 11.5mm. Length 10.5mm. 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 23rd February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7537DF
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button with an integral drilled loop: biconical, hollow openwork head with a small central nipple and engraved lines between six perforations on the front face, and with six perforations on the reverse. Comparable with Baart et al. 1977, no.235, Margeson 1993, no.102 and Read 2010, no. 110. Weight 2.05g. Diameter 11.7mm. Length 18.1mm. 16th century
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 23rd February 2023
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Record ID: IOW-740335
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete 18th century tombac (copper with high zinc content alloy) composite button. Circular in plan and flat in profile, with a soldered cone in the centre of the reverse, missing the attachment loop. The face is undecorated and has a dull silver colour.
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-5FFF6E
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy button. Pressed metal discoid button with two stitching holes in a central sunken oval panel with a billeted perimeter. A circumferential legend reads: CLEUGH & SON BRIGG. This family tailoring business was established before the 1840s and traded from Brigg Marketplace between 1868 and 1890. A maker’s back stamp reads: FIRMIN & SONS +LONDON+, so Cleughs’ had their buttons made out of town; Firmins’ were a very prominent 19th-century London button maker. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1868-1890 Diameter: 16.7mm, Thickness (at rim): 1.2mm, Weight: 1.77gms
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scawby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-5EC096
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy probable button, as kindly suggested by the finder. A discoid lightly concavo-convex front with a scalloped edge, and with a brown surface centrally, perhaps from the extrusion of rust from a steel loop – otherwise mostly lost. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1800 Diameter: 20mm, Height (i.e. protrusion overall as found): 4.7mm, Weight: 2.75gms
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haxey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-4E0CBD
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast lead alloy button with integral lug, dating to the post medieval period (c. AD 1600 - 1700). The button is domed,w ith a pellet at the appex from which radiate ten spokes. At the approximate midpoint of the hemisphere is a circle, bisecting all spokes to form a possible water mill pattern. The reverse is flat, with a casting seam running across the diameter. Centrally placed is a U-shaped attachment lug, which is intact but bent over to one side. Buttons of similar form are illustrated in Read (2010) p.77-78, though with a variety of decorative styles. They ar…
Created on: Tuesday 21st February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 29th June 2023
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