Button or Stud?

[johnnyi]

I dug this today at a spot which spanned early 1730's to the latest about 1818. It is high double domed, brass with either lead or pewter fill, about the diameter of a penny. If it has a shank (or round tack) attached to the back it is gone. Has anyone found a pewter filled high domed button exacrtly like this? It seems too big to me for a stud. Thanks

 

[IronSpike]

I would guess rosette even though it's rather small.

The small one in this picture was found at a 1700's farm house. It doesn't give size, but appear to be close:

http://www.members.tripod.com/gregsrelics/diggings.html

 

[vayank54]

I agree with Ironspike.

 

[dneyedli@res1.mts.net]

Looks like a button to me. The back looks like a typical broken shank and I have found earlier buttons with that overall shape (1750's). The broken part is dead center where as the rosettes have two broken marks on the sides. That's my two cents from looking at the pictures.
Dave.

 

[GopherDaGold]

I'm thinking it could be an old tufting button.

 

[traderoftreasures]

looks like the button off of a bar stool leg or bottom of a couch leg

 

[vayank54]

I've dug colonial rosettes that had a stud in the middle and are fairly small. If it were a bottom to a stool or couch leg I doubt it would be lead filled. Also I don't recall ever seeing any buttons with a brass face and lead filled back. while it's possible it is a button. I would lean to it being a rosette of a harness. There was probably a row of them on a narrow harness.