found button in nc

[jrwill56]

found ths button at a 1700s home site,anyone know?

 

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[birdman]

It may be French. Hard to tell by the pic.

 

[ColonialDude]

French for sure with the remnants of the turret shank.

 

[vonrall]

found ths button at a 1700s home site,anyone know?

It appears to be a variation of a French Naval Artillery button of they type used around 1803-1805. Usually the number of the Regiment is fully spelled out but this one seems to be made to have the number handstamped into the space , which apparently never happened . Other ones of this basic type have been found on other sites in the South.