Three metal buttons from the Holy Well, Inschadney, Kenmore, Perthshire

Double button (Dubbel knapp) of bronze, Bronze Age, from Denmark

Double button (Dubbel knapp) of bronze, Bronze Age, from Denmark

Double button (Dubbel knapp) of bronze, Bronze Age, from Denmark

Double button (Dubbel knapp) of bronze, Bronze Age, from Denmark

Double button (Dubbel knapp) of bronze, Bronze Age, from Denmark

Double button of bronze with high middle (Dubbel knapp med hög midt), Bronze Age, from Denmark

Double button of bronze with high middle (Dubbel knapp med hög midt), Bronze Age, from Denmark

Bronze button from Fortrie, Balnoon, Inverkeithny

Button or belt mount of bronze, circular and hollow with loops underneath, found in 1869 at Grosvenor Crescent, Edinburgh, Scotland

Three V-perforated buttons of jet, found inside a cinerary urn, from Keith Marischal, East Lothian

Domical button of jet, with V-shaped perforation, from a cairn in the Knock Hills, Edgerston, Borders, Bronze Age

Domical button of jet, with V-shaped perforation, from a cairn in the Knock Hills, Edgerston, Borders, Bronze Age

Oval double-pointed button or mount with a loop on the back for attachment to a harness, from a moss at Middlebie, 1st - 2nd century AD

Button seal in glazed steatite, of hemispherical shape with a flat base incised with a coil decoration: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Kingdom, 12th - 13th Dynasty

Button seal in glazed steatite in the form of a human head wearing a male wig: Ancient Egyptian, 1st Intermediate Period