Iron Patch
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Took a chance doing the trip to an old favorite site with the hopes the sites had further washed out of the banks, and turns out I was right. It's not piles, but when you left the place silent and can go back and get this I think it's pretty good. I did dig quite a few more targets but most was just small lead.
FRENCH COLONIAL MARINE BUTTONS, Ca. 1700-1763
The Compagnies franches de la Marine, comprised of infantry under royal naval authority, formed the backbone of France's colonial military establishment in North America. While other French regular and colonial units served in the New World, no other forces served continuously or over such a vast territorial expanse. The classic button pattern worn by these troops from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico until the end of the French colonial period was a convex, rimmed, cast brass type exemplified by the specimens shown above. Until the 1730s, these buttons were made with integrally cast, slab-like shanks with drilled eyes similar to those in use by the Spanish military establishment at the time (upper left/Dauphine Island, Alabama). By the 1740s, the drilled eye form had been replaced by a similar form featuring a cast brass rimmed button body with an inverse staple-like copper or brass wire eye soldered or brazed to the button's back (upper right/Mobile, Alabama and Lake Champlain, New York).
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can't quite remember were 
That buckle goes back a bit more.
Nice old buckle, reminds me of my early 1700s Spanish buckle I found years ago, and the French buttons a nice bonus.
