Button Cache!! Civil War Virginia and Connecticut + a bunch more *Update*

[MonkeyBoy]

Hello all,

Have not been out digging too much.. but took my boys out to dig a trash pit close to home that has given us a bunch of good bottles. The bottles were pretty slow coming of of the ground, got a few that are still soaking but while digging I hit and area that had 28 buttons in about a foot circle or so. We used a sifter and I am pretty sure we got them all. The first ones were cool little glass ones but then I spotted a cuff/vest size metal one and it was the Connecticut!!! I was pretty happy with that!!! In 20 years of relic hunting I have only dug one.. then I started checking allthe dirt I had pulled out of the hole and found the Virginia cuff sitting on top of the dirt!! We ran home and got a sifter and went through the rest of the dirt and found 4 more.. The only thing I can think of was a group of buttons were thrown out since at some point since the earliest bottle we have found dates to just after the Civil War.

Thanks for looking..

MB

Went back out.. dug 6 more good bottles including a nice little ink that still has the dried ink in it.. and found 5 more buttons but no more Civil War period ones... tons more digging to do!!

 

[Sky Pilot]

Re: Button Cache!! Civil War Virginia and Connecticut + a bunch more

Nice finds!! Great job!! Regards, Richard

 

[spartacus53]

Re: Button Cache!! Civil War Virginia and Connecticut + a bunch more

Nice finds, those buttons appear to be in great shape

 

[sscindercoop]

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Nice finds!!!!

 

[allen]

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congrats on that wonderful assortment of relics !!

 

[silvercop]

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[Dan32981]

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Great finds! Happy Dirt Fishing!

-Dan

 

[Tank69]

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wtg

 

[briankb70]

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wtg

 

[tymcmurray]

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Nice button patch!
Congratulations!

 

[hogge]

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That's pretty kool! Nice finds. The Hogge

 

[LI Tom]

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Wow,impressive haul of wonderful 19th Century buttons.Great spot there.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

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Love finding those buttons!

 

[72cheyenne]

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That is a great find. Folks used to keep a jar of buttons around ( I know my grandmother had a mason jar full ). Prolly a jar of buttons got tossed in the trash pit, jar broke, and left you to find them many years later. WTG.

 

[CenterHit]

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Fantastic gilt on that Connecticut and VA buttons. Congrats on some good finds.

 

[johnreb1980]

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Those are sweet MB.

 

[dfx willy]

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alls i can say is wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! willy.

 

[crashbro17x]

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Lucky Dog! Sweet Finds!

 

[MonkeyBoy]

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Thanks everybody.. going back over this evening.. hopefully come back with some more buttons!!

Mark

 

[swat2004]

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Very nice MB congrats