Accession No

1904.39


Description

Circular decorated copper alloy plate, possibly the front part of a 'dandy button', ornately decorated with a border of 22 raised pellets and an inner border consisting of an elaborately braided rope-work decoration leaving holes in between before a ring of eleven more raised pellets surrounding a singular central plain circle.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Cambridge


Period

Post Medieval


Source

Whetham, W. C. D. (Mrs) [donor]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1904.39


Cultural Affliation


Material

Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze


Local Term


Measurements

24mm


Events

Context (Display)
Previously mounted on plain paper-wrapped display board, upper part now broken off and missing, with handwritten label in black ink reading: '1904.39 [illegible parts as crossed out in black ink] Cambridge illegible parts as crossed out in black ink] Mrs. Whetham' and on the back handwritten in pencil reading: 'Miscellaneous ?481. 1904'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Description (Physical description)
Small circular decorated piece.
Event Date
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Accession Register entry reads "A small ornamented disc of bronze? plated with silver, consisting of a flat central stud surrounded by two rows of boxes, which are divided by a ring of openwork."
Event Date 17/8/2001
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Description (Physical description)
Circular decorated copper alloy plate, possibly the front part of a 'dandy button', ornately decorated with a border of 22 raised pellets and an inner border consisting of an elaborately braided rope-work decoration leaving holes in between before a ring of eleven more raised pellets surrounding a singular central plain circle.
Event Date 24/11/2023
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


FM:19483

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