Playing the end game gives up Rev War and one very old anchor button!

Iron Patch

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Have a friend in town (Cerebus on here), and we've been digging some dirt. Sites are tough right now with most fields planted so the end game we are playing is detecting sites that are pretty close to the end, which is oh so different than once upon a time ...because they were great sites! Looking at my little pile of finds it looks like my typical post from a day out with Ironhorse in the Fall, but oh no, this was many hours worth. :) Like I said these places have been hit well, clearly not dead yet, but you do have to work for it.

All that said, I'm very satisfied with the results. The Rev War RP button didn't survive well, but that's expected for those. The Ross Guards is cool, and clearly a rare one as I found another a decade ago and no one seems to know anything and I've never seen another. What makes it even stranger is this one is a variant, having no crown like the first I dug. So now I have two and no answers - but do feel there is a very high probability they are from Ross-shire, Scotland. This Winter I will see if I can figure that out.

Last but not least, is my best and most interesting button I've dug in a while. It's a crude anchor design hand engraved tombac. It's early French and would date somewhere between 1720 and 1750.


Ironhorse if you see this...

The RP is from the little RP hill site in T.

The Ross Guards is from the NJ field, not far from where you got the Master button last year.

The French anchor is from the Cossack Cob site. So quiet it was tough not to leave after the first 20 minutes, but stayed and the button was my first signal maybe 30 feet in front of the iron. I dug three more targets in the hour that followed, all away from the site.
 

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Here is another resource. Lots of hits for Ross Cavalry so the Horse Guards items do seem to be related to Ross, Ireland. Also see this part where it is stated the Ross Yeomanry had a Cavalry and an Infantry corps. Perhaps they had different buttons?

https://books.google.com/books?id=ueIvAAAAMAAJ&q=ross+cavalry#v=snippet&q=ross cavalry&f=false

eta here is the link to the Ross Infantry hits as well-

https://books.google.com/books?id=ueIvAAAAMAAJ&q=ross+cavalry#v=snippet&q=ross infantry&f=false
 

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Bill D. (VA)

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That has to be one of the most unique buttons I've seen. And very historically significant as well. Nice going!!
 

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One of a kind buttons you found there.
Nice going
 

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The hand-engraved anchor button is awesome - a real connection to a person from hundreds of years ago.
 

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I hope you are able to find some more good sites, but it looks like the old ones are still producing. Those buttons are top notch, the ROSS button is a great find.
 

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