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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