a few buttons

[coloradocav]

all 2354 U.S. army great seal buttons came from 1 hole, I had to opt for a sifter because I thought my detector was going to explode.

[dkw]

Have they been in a fire? You've got to tell the story behind this find.

[coloradocav]

Have they been in a fire? You've got to tell the story behind this find.

Yeah, I believe these were in a fire, they came from a small dump at a training camp. They probably burned the dump periodically. Some of the bottles were pretty melted. I did find some buttons in a sand layer that were like brand new. I don't really know why there were so many buttons maybe they were complete uniforms, why would they burn them? I found this dump by complete accident. I was digging exploded ordnance from the top of a mesa, I looked down at the base of the mesa and saw a couple rows of boulders and a faint road coming from the training camp about a quarter mile away. I hiked down the hill and noticed broken glass and a couple buttons on the surface, that's when my machine overloaded. good thing I carry a small sifter in my truck! Sure was exciting, got alot of cool stuff but can't go back because it became a county open space park.

[Montana Jim]

Too bad they are great seal and not eagles! 

Holy freaking crap!  THAT's a helluva pile-o-buttons...

I bet they were on uniforms burned a pile after a sickness, or some kind of epidemic where they had to burn all the used clothes. Or, Maybe the quartermaster's storage shed burned down....

How very interesting...

[coloradocav]

Too bad they are great seal and not eagles!

Holy freaking crap! THAT's a helluva pile-o-buttons...

I bet they were on uniforms burned a pile after a sickness, or some kind of epidemic where they had to burn all the used clothes. Or, Maybe the quartermaster's storage shed burned down....

How very interesting...

I wondered about that epidemic thing too because of all those dog tags buried with the buttons. I do know another guy in Colorado that stumbled into one of Custer's camps and they burned the uniforms of the deserters, he found over 100 eagle buttons in the pile!

[Joe(TX)]

...............WOW...............that is one big pile of buttons............HOW MANY??...........200??.............I bet that you thought that you found one large object which turned out to be a lot of small items!!.........JOE