Good Day with Shaun7...UPDATED - Cleaned Button - Further update!

[CRUSADER]

Shaun & I returned to the Papal Bulla Field to finish it off. Which we did (except 20% of the low unproductive land) in about 5.5 hours. Dad joined us for 3 hours & by the end of the day (7 hours), we had totalled 10 man hours. (not including Shaun7 who will post his 7 hours worth soon)

Things didn't get interesting until we decided to do a bit of coin shooting in the small field next to the car, it has a footpath across it leading to an old ferry river crossing.

Dad got an outstanding 1697 Shilling almost off the bat, then a lovely 'Love Token' type coin with RMS Arzila:
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company brought her in 1908:
http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/images/arzila2.jpg
See post card above of the Ship. If this one could talk, I think it must be from a crew member to their loved one?

2 Roman Coins (1 pictured in mud)
2 Late Medieval Buckles
Lead Token (maybe Boy Bishop which would be my first)

Plus I found what has to be my best conditioned Pewter button ever
43rd Regiment of Foot - late 18th Century
Involved in the Rev War where they were captured at Yorktown in 1781.

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Good Day with Shaun7...UPDATED - Cleaned Button

Nice job. Could the unidentified object that Crudad brought home be one side of a hand grinder stand? We used to have a small cast iron grinder that was supported by something like that. It looks like it has two feet.

Just a guess.

As usual, your daily "rubbish" is nicer than anything I have found, not to mention all of your keepers. So I am back to the research. My goal is to find one item this year that gets a nod from across the pond.

-Fathead

Could be, thats better than the blank I can think of.

Research will pay off, so I'll watch & wait

 

[hammered]

Re: Good Day with Shaun7...UPDATED - Cleaned Button

Nice one Cru , I really like the button, it's in a lot better condition than the one I found when you came down, and the love token is the best I've seen. Imagine the time it took to make. Give Cru'Dad a big well done from me.

hammered

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Good Day with Shaun7...UPDATED - Cleaned Button

Nice one Cru , I really like the button, it's in a lot better condition than the one I found when you came down, and the love token is the best I've seen. Imagine the time it took to make. Give Cru'Dad a big well done from me.

hammered

Cheers,
I can't get over how the button stayed in such good nick, almost like it was never in the ground
The Arzila is a 1 off special, nicer than the average coin.

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: Good Day with Shaun7...UPDATED - Cleaned Button

Nice one Cru , I really like the button, it's in a lot better condition than the one I found when you came down, and the love token is the best I've seen. Imagine the time it took to make. Give Cru'Dad a big well done from me.

hammered

Cheers,
I can't get over how the button stayed in such good nick, almost like it was never in the ground
The Arzila is a 1 off special, nicer than the average coin.

That is just stunning condition! Grey and the complete edge.... and on a great button! It all amounts to one very rare dug find!

 

[hammered]

Re: Good Day with Shaun7...UPDATED - Cleaned Button

I was thinking that with rarity and condition, had you found it and not your dad, I would definitely have voted banner. Get Cru'Dad signed up .

hammered

 

[mainer]

Re: Good Day with Shaun7...UPDATED - Cleaned Button

Great digs Cru! That love token is sweet, and I cant believe the condition of that pewter button.

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Good Day with Shaun7...UPDATED - Cleaned Button

Great digs Cru! That love token is sweet, and I cant believe the condition of that pewter button.

Its the next morning & I still can't believe it 8)

 

[dfx willy]

Re: Good Day with Shaun7...UPDATED - Cleaned Button

nice hunt!! that ship coin! any research on the name of it willy

 

[Deepdiger60]

Re: Good Day with Shaun7...UPDATED - Cleaned Button

Great finds that button is awesome Good hunting Dd60

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Good Day with Shaun7...UPDATED - Cleaned Button

nice hunt!! that ship coin! any research on the name of it willy

The research is in post 1.

 

[Don in SJ]

Re: Good Day with Shaun7...UPDATED - Cleaned Button

Love the token and the 43rd button of the American Rev War era button is super! Maybe a Clamshell was draped over it in the field protecting it for you to find!

That button possibly has many campaigns of history under its belt, the 43rd was here in the beginning at Bunker Hill and many other campaigns and yes also at Yorktown!!

Lexington-Concord, Bunker Hill; NYC Long Island; Ft Washington; Newport, Rhode Island; Philadelphia; Elizabethtown, NJ; Staten Island NY; Green Spring Va; and the surrender at Yorktown. Wow, some history!!!!

Don

 

[CRUSADER]

UPDATE:

Just had a response on the date of the button, as other than knowing it was 18th C I was clueless on the date range. This is the reply from an expert:

'Very nice specimen indeed. It is the pattern used between 1775-84. It's possible it was used also as early as 1768 and a few years after 1784.'

Very pleased with this, its unlikely I will find a better pewter button in another 20 years of hunting

 

[shaun7]

UPDATE:

Just had a response on the date of the button, as other than knowing it was 18th C I was clueless on the date range. This is the reply from an expert:

'Very nice specimen indeed. It is the pattern used between 1775-84. It's possible it was used also as early as 1768 and a few years after 1784.'

Very pleased with this, its unlikely I will find a better pewter button in another 20 years of hunting

Well worth a couple of trips there then