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Viking pewter button replica after a find from Birka.
This ball-shaped Viking button served probably as a closure for a kaftan and was recovered in the Swedish Viking town Birka on the isle of Björkö in tomb BJ 1074 together with 17 additional buttons in identical form.
Ball-shaped buttons are known from several places of the Viking time and were common within the fashion of the Eastern Vikings and Rus, where the kaftan was widely used as a garment.
With the solid cast-on eyelet on the bottom, the Viking pewter button can be sewn on the robe with few stitches.
The Viking button from Birka has the size 1.2 x 0.9 cm.