Metal Detecting Finds: Buttons
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Metal Detecting Finds: Buttons by Brian Read
Including Button-like Objects, Toggles, Button-and-Loop Fasteners, Cufflinks & Studs
| Author | Brian Read |
|---|---|
| Pages | 238 |
Metal Detecting Finds: Buttons by Brian Read
- Author: Brian Read
- Format: A4 Paperback
- Pages: 238
- Illustrations: 1400+ colour images
Explore the fascinating history of buttons spanning over 4,000 years with this comprehensive reference by renowned author Brian Read. Covering metal buttons and button-like objects from 2150 BC to AD 1900, this detailed guide brings together years of research and showcases both well-known and previously unrecorded finds.
Richly illustrated with over 1,400 colour images and detailed drawings, the book provides valuable insights into the manufacture, dating, and usage of a wide variety of buttons. It is an essential resource for metal detectorists, archaeologists, mudlarks, dress historians, and collectors interested in early dress fastenings.
On the back cover:
Buttons have a fascinating history stretching back over 2000 years, but there is a distinct lack of study or information on the topic, especially examples predating the 16th century.
Thanks largely to metal detectorists, archaeologists and mudlarks, a remarkable range of previously unknown or unrecorded metal buttons have been brought to light over recent years.
This book brings together a comprehensive account of the evolution of metal buttons and button-like objects from 2150 BC to AD 1900, with each example illustrated by colour photographs and/or detailed line drawings, along with details on manufacture, date, and usage. It will prove invaluable to metal detectorists, archaeologists, mudlarks, dress historians and anyone with an interest in early dress fastenings.
About the author:
Brian Read was born in 1939 in Essex and raised in East and South-East London. With no formal educational qualifications, he left Secondary Modern School in 1954 and became a trainee millwright, then a trainee groundsman, before joining the Merchant Navy in 1955, through which he travelled widely. In 1961, he embarked on a fire service career, first with the Devon County Fire Service, then the City of Plymouth Fire Brigade, and finally the newly formed Devon Fire Brigade. While on duty in 1983 as an assistant divisional officer, he sustained an injury that, in 1986, led to his medical discharge.
Since leaving the fire service, he has worked as a freelance writer. His first book, History Beneath Our Feet, published in 1988, was a bestseller and, after extensive revision, was republished in 1995 and proved successful again. Between 1999 and 2015, he self-published under the imprint Portcullis Publishing. From 1978, metal detecting and its associated study of small metal artefacts have been his primary leisure interest.