Object: Button
Classification: Conical loop
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, Nos. 1927-2482a, 2482b,(NB - 4 others found at same time).
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Reach Fen,1867
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Reach
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1867
Width (mm): 22
Thickness (mm): 7
Weight (g): 7.19
Composition: Bronze
Associations: Hoard of Late Bronze Age, Nos. 2451-2489, including Socketed Celts, spearheads, knives, small tools, ornaments, etc. For details, see No. 24551, socketed celt.
Description: Two large concentric grooves in middle - wide rounded edge - Hollow below-Looped. Faces sharp and smooth, suggesting turning or rotary grinding (Evans). "The centre and raised bands though similar, are not identical in the 2, or it might have been thought that they were cast in a metal mould." (Evans).
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 400, fig. 499,H. Prigg, Journ. Brit. Arch. Assn. XXXVI, 56 ff, Fig. 15.,Inventaria Archaeologia, 1956, 3rd set: G.B. 17.
Remarks: (2 illustrated on reverse)