shanegalang
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95° heat, 100 % humidity, a new permission to hunt another field. Buckleboy and I took advantage of it and spent the better part of the day hunting. After eye balling a few clay pipe stems, blue feathered scalloped edge china and some other good signs we realized that we had discovered yet another late 1700s to mid 1800s site. I got an ear piercing signal from the old Tesoro that excited me down to one knee. I dug a crumbling plug and pulled what appeared to be a flat button from the sun hardened clay. Called BB over as I usually do to share the excitement and get his opinion of what I had recovered. He brushed a bit of the dirt off with a sugar cane stem (like we do with a tooth pick) and pointed out what was obviously an eagle. We settled on a military button of some sort and left it at that. After a good tooth picking at home I sent BB a photograph. He looked it up in the Alberts guide to buttons and found a match. NA 71. A Navy button from the 1820s. I am really excited about this find! I cant wait to get back out there and see what else awaits discovery!!
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