E36 Copper alloy and pearl button
Date19th Century
Object NameButton
Mediumcopper alloy and pearl
ClassificationsArchaeology Excavated
DimensionsOverall: Diameter: 16 mm
LocationView by Appointment
Object numberABDMS034117
About MeDuring an excavation at the St Nicholas Triangle area of Aberdeen, a large 19th-century stone and brick drain was excavated. This is a metal button which had been dropped down the drain during its use.
The copper alloy button is decorated with a pearl and is not a common find.
Other finds from the drain included dozens of wooden matches, fragments of glass bottles and other vessel glass, ceramics, iron knives, copper alloy and bone spoons, bone spatulas and a bone and bristle toothbrush.
19th century
late 12th-early 20th Century
18th - 19th Century
