button offcut
Title
Artifact Lot ID
LP2_0026_391092
Object name
Part
Lot Quantity
1
Material
Sub-material
Sub-Material 2
Function
Sub-Function
Provenience Code
Stratum
-
Level
Depth (cm)
1-7
Unit Comments
0-70
flat sawn bone sheet, 1 broken into 2 pieces, two circular cut outs on top of one another and one other cut out further down bone sheet, refit; "buttons were made on sawn pieces of cattle bone on which a hand-held steel button bit was turned creating the circular shape as well as the central hole"
Files
Collection
Citation
“button offcut,” City of Boston Archaeology Program, accessed July 17, 2026, https://bostonarchaeo.omeka.net/items/show/259072.
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