Record ID: CORN-16511E
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast pewter flat one-piece button with the base of an integral undrilled shank that is 2 mm in diameter on the back. The upper face of the button is decorated with ring of eighteen raised pellets as a border around a plain, slightly domed interior. Read (2005) illustrates a very similar small lead alloy button with a border of eighteen raised pellets from South-East Dorset, on page 100, no.393, which is dated from the 15th century. Egan & Pritchard (2002) illustrate a flat lead alloy button with a similar border of pellets, and a shank with a loop on a stem, on page 275, fig.178…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd March 2016
Last updated: Monday 24th June 2019
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