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Copper Alloy Pimple Button
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Cambridgeshire County Council, Helen Fowler, 2009-10-22 16:52:31
Title
Copper Alloy Pimple Button
Description
English: A cast copper alloy Tudor (late 15th to 16th century) bronze button. The button is18mm long. The head is 9.56mm in diameter and has a central pimple with radiate grooves. The shank is long and thin (maximum 2mm thick). The circular hole in the shank is 3mm diameter. Weight is 2.74g. The object has a brownish green patina with mid green corrosion within the grooves. A parallel can be seen in G Bailey, 2004 Buttons and Fasteners 500BC to AD 1840, Fig 7.12.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Cambridgeshire
Date between 1450 and 1599
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1599-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 265239
Old ref: CAM-850448
Filename: CAM-850448.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/225634
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/225634/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/265239
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Object location52° 09′ 05.76″ N, 0° 21′ 37.68″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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