Record ID: NMS-55F880
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver button. Solid circular head, convex on the upper face, flat on the reverse with a separate soldered wire loop. No decoration survives but the upper face appears to be heavily worn. Diameter 14mm. Height 8mm. Weight 3.1g. Probably 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Tuesday 1st March 2016
Last updated: Monday 25th April 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-A4A4EB
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver button. Undecorated domed front, now dented, flat back with two holes, a separate soldered loop and an illegible stamped mark. Circa 17th century. Diameter 14mm. Height of head at least 5mm. Length of loop 4.5mm. Weight 1.3g.
Created on: Monday 6th July 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-704263
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval or post-medieval silver button or cuff-link. Circular, the upper face originally slightly domed although now crushed flat, soldered to the flat back-plate in which there is at least one hole, broken across a probable second. No trace of an attachment loop survives, but this may have been soldered or inserted through the missing part. There is a faint stamped maker's mark, perhaps SN, SM, or WS, although neither letter is clear. The front face is decorated in repoussé with a beaded border around a crowned female bust with long flowing hair, beaded necklace with pendant a…
Created on: Tuesday 9th June 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-A62056
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver button. Composite, with domed front soldered to almost flat reverse, with separate soldered D-sectioned strip forming loop. Undecorated. Slightly dented. Diameter 9mm. Height 12mm. Weight 0.7g. 17th century. SB
Created on: Thursday 1st August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-AE6B96
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Composite silver button. Circular, flat back-plate with two widely spaced holes, perhaps blow holes or for the (missing) inserted wire loop. There is no other trace of a loop or shank on the reverse. The front-plate has a central dome (now squashed) surrounded by a beaded border, moulding (now concave but perhaps originally convex) and an outer beaded border around the edge. Similar to an example from Oxfordshire decorated with the bust of Charles II (BERK-4B7D02) which also has a beaded border. See also a copper alloy and iron example from a 15th century context in Read (2005, 27, no…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
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.

Record ID: NMS-4CA840
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete silver button. Domed front-plate with central pellet from composite button, back-plate and shank missing. Diameter 13mm. Surviving height 6mm. Weight 0.5g. 17th century. Similar examples can be found from Hertfordshire (2010 T446, PAS ID: BH-6D9CD3) and Nottinghamshire (2010 T196, PAS ID: SWYOR-325846).
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 4th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wendling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A2F382
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of 17th century silver button. Domed upper half of hollow, two part head, with central pellet externally and short, central broken projection internally. Now slightly squashed. Original diameter 11mm. Weight 0.2g. Similar examples can be found from Hertfordshire (2010 T446, PAS ID: BH-6D9CD3) and Nottinghamshire (2010 T196, PAS ID: SWYOR-325846).
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 4th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mulbarton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-595A05
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver button. Hollow, hemispherical head. Convex front soldered to flat back with undrilled wire loop soldered to the centre of the back-plate. Diameter of head 10mm. Height (unbent) 12mm. Weight 1.0g. c. 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 10th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 26th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Witton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D800E4
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver button. Hollow, hemispherical head with two blow holes, a scar from the (missing) soldered loop and a stamped makers mark, II within a heart, on the reverse. The upper face is engraved with two concentric circles, the inner one crosshatched, surrounded by six alternately lozengiform and bi-lozengiform petals or spokes filled with closely spaced transverse lines. c. 17th century. Weight 1.0g. Diameter 13mm. Height 6mm.
Created on: Thursday 4th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 30th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Runhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0B3E27
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver button. The front-plate is a convex openwork filigree octofoil with a coil of twisted silver wire in each foil, with a circle of twisted wire around a Central pellet. Soldered to the circular, flat back-plate with separate soldered wire loop on reverse. Similar to an example with filigree front and back-plates from Witherley, Leicestershire (database number NARC-148471). 16th century. Similar example can be found from Essex (ESS-BDFAE1, 2011 T759) and from Leicestershire which is now in the British Museum collections (NARC-148471; BM registration number: 2010.8036.1). Diamet…
Created on: Wednesday 14th March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-004E98
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval composite hollow silver button. Domed upper half soldered to slightly convex lover half which has two blow-holes and separate soldered loop. Part of a very worn and now illegible makers mark stamped on the underside. circa 17th century. Diameter 14mm. Height of head 10mm. Total height including loop 15mm. Weight 2.34g. A similar example can be found from Hambledon, Buckinghamshire (2008 TAR, ref. 387, p. 351; 2008 T435; PAS-LON85F505).
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 15th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beeston with Bittering', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D657C1
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver button with hollow bi-convex head, half of which is now crumpled, with a soldered wire loop and at least one blow hole on the reverse. Height of head 10mm. Diameter 12mm. Weight 1.9g. c. 17th century.
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 15th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Keswick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D5F031
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver button. Only the circular back-plate survives, with two blow holes, scar where missing loop was attached with solder, and a makers mark stamped twice, either H, T or I. Possibly 17th century. Diameter 12mm.
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 15th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foulsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D45677
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval composite silver button¸ the hollow plano-convex head made from two pieces, and the (slightly bent) wire loop attached by solder. There are two blow-holes in the rear, one of which goes through a stamped rectangular makers mark, now illegible. 17th century. Diameter 14mm. Thickness of head 7mm. Weight 1.7g.
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2012
Last updated: Monday 16th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bracon Ash', 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-8AA726
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval composite silver button¸ the hollow globular head made from two halves, and the wire loop attached by solder. Gilded. Diameter 11mm. Length 12.5mm. Weight 0.90g. 17th century. Similar examples can be found in Chelmondiston, Suffolk (TAR 2004, ref. 234, p.118, 2004 T420; and from Sudbourne, Suffolk (2011 T194, PAS database ref. SF-4505C6).
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2011
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sandringham', 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.

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-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.