Record ID: NMS-B00E55
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver button. Hollow, bi-convex, with a small central boss and a seam at the junction with the flat reverse. D-sectioned loop. Diameter 9mm. Weight 1.08g. 16th-early 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 12th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cawston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A9CC55
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT 17th Century silver button Description Composite three-piece biconvex silver button, the underside of which is now squashed and a distorted, with a D-sectioned wire loop. Engraved decoration on the top consists of a six-petalled flower within a circle and with the spaces between the petals filled with parallel lines, all set within a band of short oblique lines between two concentric circles. There are two blow-holes on the reverse.
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Walton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-40F587
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver button. Made in two halves and soldered together, now squashed almost flat and broken. Separate soldered wire loop in upper half, two holes in lower half near join, across one of which the break runs. Surface gilded and covered in closely spaced repoussé pellets. 16th- 17th century. Present measurements; height 23mm, width 19mm. Weighing 4.1g.
Created on: Thursday 12th February 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-BE3BA7
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver button. Circular, with a convex front with decoration cast in low relief consisting of a crowned female bust facing forwards, with flowing hair, a beaded necklace with a pendant and details of the collar and shoulders of a dress with a plunging neckline. The decoration, particularly the details of the face, is worn. The reverse is slightly damaged, and appears to have been hollow. The shank and loop are missing. Diameter 13mm. Thickness 3.5mm. Weight 1.0g. Circa 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd November 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aldborough area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F03CB2
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver button. Three part construction, hollow. Flat, circular front engraved with a W. Convex reverse with separate inserted and soldered shank of sub-triangular section. Probably 17th - 18th century. Diameter 16mm, height 11.5mm. Weight 3.1g.
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd November 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fransham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8E59C0
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver composite button. Hollow, domed top soldered to slightly convex reverse, with two blow holes and separate soldered wire loop. Stamped, worn makers mark, H, also on the reverse. Diameter 13mm. Height 15mm. Weight 2.4g. 17th century. A similar example can be found from Much Hadham, Hertfordshire (2010 T446, PAS database ref. BH-6D9CD3).
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aldborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1A8435
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval circular silver sheet button, rather distorted, with an incomplete loop attached with solder on the reverse. The initials 'PC', probably of the owner, have been pecked out in dots in the centre of the convex front, and the maker's mark 'RM' stamped twice on the reverse. Diameter 16.5mm. Weight 1.30g. 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 27th September 2011
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weybourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-76B9B2
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver button. Bi-convex, hollow, the two halves soldered together with two holes in the reverese and a separate soldered D-sectioned loop. There are traces of decoration on the upper half in the form of worn semicircles which may originally have been annulets. Cf. Read, 2005, no.355 - 358 for similar copper alloy examples. c. 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 16th June 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E85FC5
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Just over half a hollow composite spherical silver button with a circular loop and an incomplete median cable-twisted wire band both attached by solder. The extant hemisphere is distorted along with the small surviving fragment of the other half. 16th century.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd September 2009
Last updated: Friday 20th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-083696
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver button. The lower half of a bi-convex hollow button with separate inserted silver wire loop. There are two holes in the lower half, which is now partially distorted. Probably c. 17th century.
Created on: Monday 28th September 2009
Last updated: Friday 20th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beeston with Bittering', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1726A1
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular with elaborate cast decoration with sexfoil central boss from which six lines radiate between six similar but slightly smaller bosses, casting seam across reverse with scar from missing loop, edge damaged, diameter 30mm.
Created on: Thursday 16th December 2004
Last updated: Monday 22nd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colkirk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-AB2115
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver button with hollow hemispherical head decorated with a peripheral pair of parallel engraved lines joined by oblique lines, and wire loop attached by solder between two blow holes on the flat underside. The top of the head is squashed. Weight 0.73g. Diameter 11.3mm. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 28th October 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 17th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-ECBC25
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver button with hollow hemispherical head decorated with a pair of irregular parallel engraved lines joined by oblique lines, and multiple lines radiating from a central pellet. There is a wire loop on the flat underside attached by solder between two blow holes. 17th century. Diameter 14mm. Length 13mm. Weight 1.3g.
Created on: Monday 31st October 2011
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Keswick', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-1D99C3
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy button. Domed head with the arms of the Commonwealth cast in relife on the front. Hollow-backed with broken integral drilled shank. Read (2005, 47, no. 168). Diameter 24.5mm.1653 - 1659 See Robinson (1999) for objects decorated with the Commonwealth arms.
Created on: Wednesday 19th December 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C48D87
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of post-medieval silver button. Only the domed upper half of the bi-convex or hemispherical head survives, now distorted and damaged. Worn decoration consists of a central dot surrounded by an eight pointed star, with a border of lozenges and chevrons. Diameter 17mm. Weight 0.5g. 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rollesby', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-80BD57
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button. Solid hemispherical head with integral loop on reverse. Height 10mm. Diameter 10mm. 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2013
Last updated: Thursday 17th January 2013
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-810425
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button. Hollow, bi-convex head with central pellet and six sub-triangular apertures in the upper and lower face. Integral attachment loop on reverse. Diameter 11mm. Height 17mm. See Read (2008, 30, no.93). c. 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2013
Last updated: Thursday 17th January 2013
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-8127C6
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button. Hollow head with deeply doomed upper part soldered to shallow convex reverse with two holes and separate inserted wire loop. Silvery solder, tinning or silvering survives around the join between the upper and lower halves and around the loop. Diameter 13.5mm. Height 19mm. See Read (2008, 88, no.364). c. 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2013
Last updated: Thursday 17th January 2013
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-798713
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button. Solid hemispherical head with integral loop on reverse. Diameter 11mm. Length 11mm.
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 29th January 2013
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-F475D6
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval cast copper alloy button. Solid, bi-convex head, broken across integral shank on reverse. Diameter 10mm, surviving length 11.5mm. 16th-17th century. Similar to Read 2005. Metal Buttons. Page 51, nos. 174-179.
Created on: Thursday 28th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th February 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Syderstone', grid reference and parish protected.