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Object Number 40-77-40/12241
Display Title Button
Descriptions
Object Description Numerous bronze buttons: 1 cruciform (2.5 cm diameter); 1 shield-like with a central boss (2 cm diameter); 1 mushroom-shaped, with a post instead of a loop (0.5 x 0.6 cm height x diameter); 5 hemispherical (0.5 cm diameter); 16 with central bosses (1.6 cm. diameter); 124 are plain (1 cm diameter); 247 plain (0.7 cm diameter)
Inventory Description Metal, personal, buttons, 1 cruciform, 1 shield-like with a central boss, 1 mush
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Button
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Late Iron Age
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Europe / Slovenia / <State> / <County> / <City> / Vinica
Intrasite Grave 277
Materials Bronze
Dimensions Overall: 1.8 x 1.7 x 0.5 cm (11/16 x 11/16 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 400
Label on object 40-77-40/12241
Provenance
Provenance Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg (1906)

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