21 buttons off of 1 homesite! And a couple of silvers!

[Oldrvrrat57]

Hit the homesite that I stumbled onto a few days ago walked it slow and dug everything above iron on the D2. This site wasn't showing on my 1872 plat and was kinda strange very little pottery or glass and only a few chunks of stone. Majority of the signals were buttons ranging from the 50s to low 80s, the 1857o half dime came up a 87 and 1901 Barber was a solid 90! This makes 26 buttons off this 1 site , wondering if someone thru some old clothes out here.

 

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[Jeff H]

That's a fine hunt there Oldrvrat !

 

[pepperj]

Congratulations on the 2 silvers and the buttons.

Sometimes one wonders why so many buttons at a site. I have one site 50 buttons, 1 Half Penny.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

What a fantastic bunch of finds - congrats !

Seems like we find so many Buttons around old home sites because Clothing was just left there when the house was abandoned.
The Clothing rotted away and now there's Buttons everywhere.
Or, they just weren't very good at sewing Buttons on in the 1800's

 

[Gare]

VERY NICE FINDS you did FANTASTIC how did you come across the site ?

 

[mjb Mike]

very nice Ive found alot of sites were you find alot of buttons in about a 20 yard area a little ways away from were the house was.my guess is it was were they would get on and off there horse and tie them up.Not the stable but a hitching post.

 

[Oldrvrrat57]

VERY NICE FINDS you did FANTASTIC how did you come across the site ?

By accident , was talking back to my truck after hitting the site I named Shield Nickel site and was still swinging my D2

 

[Gare]

Thank you VRRat

 

[xr7ator]

Did you find any leftovers from old toothpaste type tubes? My opinion on buttons
and clothing clips, etc. is that many people incinerated their trash and then spread the ashes on the land.
Sweet barber and seated! Thanks for sharing.

 

[The Rebel]

Great site and finds. I'm sure more goodies will pop up.

 

[Silvermonkey]

Wow....that's a crazy number of buttons! Congrats on all the great finds! What a site!!!!

 

[oldmxrat]

Wow, too much fun, congrats!

 

[Hunk-a-lead]

Hit the homesite that I stumbled onto a few days ago walked it slow and dug everything above iron on the D2. This site wasn't showing on my 1872 plat and was kinda strange very little pottery or glass and only a few chunks of stone. Majority of the signals were buttons ranging from the 50s to low 80s, the 1857o half dime came up a 87 and 1901 Barber was a solid 90! This makes 26 buttons off this 1 site , wondering if someone thru some old clothes out here.View attachment 2196576View attachment 2196568View attachment 2196569View attachment 2196592

oh my, what a haul! love that old silver

 

[Digger RJ]

Hit the homesite that I stumbled onto a few days ago walked it slow and dug everything above iron on the D2. This site wasn't showing on my 1872 plat and was kinda strange very little pottery or glass and only a few chunks of stone. Majority of the signals were buttons ranging from the 50s to low 80s, the 1857o half dime came up a 87 and 1901 Barber was a solid 90! This makes 26 buttons off this 1 site , wondering if someone thru some old clothes out here.View attachment 2196576View attachment 2196568View attachment 2196569View attachment 2196592

Awesome!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Now that's a lot of buttons ! I like the Barber and Seated.