Back to the CW/Colonial camp site..... more buttons!!!!!

[treasurehound]

Met up today with Larry and his grandson to hunt a site that has Civil War relics as well as Colonial relics. We are hunting a camp site that had a log cabin on it that the officers used in the Civil War. His grandson found a nice wheat penny right off the bat near an old house on the site. My very first find was a small flat button. This site is in a cow pasture and we had to watch where we stepped as the cows were there and the pies were fresh. The buttons are in a very small part of the pasture were the log cabin used to be next to the woods. I found a total of 7 buttons today. Six flat buttons and one not sure of. Also found a small buckle, half of a heavy brass frame buckle, lid with designs on it, bullet and an unknown piece with a ring on it. One of the buttons is marked Robinson & Co. which was in business until 1848. Larry found some buttons and bullets and some other finds. We have found over 25 flat buttons on this site as well as three ringers and other CW relics in the past two or three hunts. Can anyone ID the other button and the ring piece?

 

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[treasurehound]

I was just told that the other button may be a Zouave button.

 

[Irregular]

Your buckle there, treasurehound. Do you have any vibes or data as to what century it might be dating from? I just posted a query ("Era of Buckle") about my very similar find today. I'm digging at what I know to be a CS camp, but a pewter musket ball (large sixty-some caliber) found last week has me wondering if this spot had previously earned a good reputation for hanging one's hat.

 

[ModernMiner]

Great button haul TH.
I love digging those.
Congrats,
MM

 

[Tnmountains]

Nothing like fresh cow pies. Many a time I come home and my truck is green. Nice buttons. Old sites like that can hold the treasures if you can get past the barrel hoops and tack! Good luck.
TnMtns

 

[Nana40]

GREAT on the flat buttons! I love to find them. They are very difficult to come by around here. Ya'll did good!

Nana

 

[BuckleBoy]

At a CW camp, you should be finding more lead bullets than that. Those look like homestead finds. The ball buttons were used extensively by civilians as well (not as prevalent as the flat buttons though). I have a dozen or so in my collection, and only one was dug at a legitimate CW camp. (With no Zouaves camped there, I might add.) So I'd hesitate to call them "zouave buttons."

BUT...anytime the flat buttons come up, there is great possibility for some nice keepers to be found.

Cheers,


Buckleboy

 

[treasurehound]

At a CW camp, you should be finding more lead bullets than that. Those look like homestead finds. The ball buttons were used extensively by civilians as well (not as prevalent as the flat buttons though). I have a dozen or so in my collection, and only one was dug at a legitimate CW camp. (With no Zouaves camped there, I might add.) So I'd hesitate to call them "zouave buttons."

BUT...anytime the flat buttons come up, there is great possibility for some nice keepers to be found.

Cheers,


Buckleboy

Thanks BB. We have found bullets all around this site. The buttons are all found on this one very small piece of the property. This camp has given up bullets, eagle buttons, breast plate, reales, flat buttons and many more CW relics. Thanks for the button id. You are the button man.

 

[{Sentinel}]

Congrats on your day out. Nice handful of flatties and a Ball Button.

 

[kuger]

At a CW camp, you should be finding more lead bullets than that. Those look like homestead finds. The ball buttons were used extensively by civilians as well (not as prevalent as the flat buttons though). I have a dozen or so in my collection, and only one was dug at a legitimate CW camp. (With no Zouaves camped there, I might add.) So I'd hesitate to call them "zouave buttons."

BUT...anytime the flat buttons come up, there is great possibility for some nice keepers to be found.

Cheers,


Buckleboy

Very True Buckles,I have dug a half dozen or so myself and all were far from any Zouve or C.W. activity

 

[Getty]

Nice digs! I like buttons.

 

[VOL1266-X]

Nice finds and buttons Randy. The only ball buttons that I have ever found came from the middle of a large U.S. Picket Camp. HH, Quindy.,