Help dating new site from buttons found?

[redbeardrelics]

Took my detector this morning to an open field site I spotted this spring while looking for arrowheads. Some scattered brick, pottery shards etc. lead me to believe there may have been early habitation there. Vegetation was too high to swing over most of the site, but did pull two small buttons with designs on them. Pottery shards I have seen there point to pre 1850, possibly 1700's or earlier, so was wondering if these two buttons etc. can narrow down the site age any further? Thanks for any insight you can offer.

 

[mangum]

Looks to be mid to late 1700s. Good potential there.

 

[Steve in PA]

I would agree with Mangum based on the small sample in these pictures.

 

[digndeep]

nice digs

 

[Showtime2385]

TheCannonballGuy seams to be pretty good with flat buttons and helped me with a couple of mine, Hopefully he will see your post and give you some good info.

 

[Ahab8]

Yep mid to late 18th century. Looks like a great spot

 

[Ahab8]

Yep mid to late 18th century. Looks like a great spot

 

[collector01]

I agree with everyone else on dates l. Great looking buttons! HH!

 

[HomeGuardDan]

I would say Mid to late 1700's but more than likely later than mid (1770s)

 

[toddsumm1]

Colonial all the way. Dig everything! That site could bring some lifetime finds. Awesome!

 

[redbeardrelics]

Thanks guys, was hoping they might get back into the late 18th century. Hopefully will be able to check it out further in different crop cycles.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Because Showtime2385 says my appraisal is worthwhile... I'll add my agreement to what the majority of other posters have replied. Your "White-Tombac" button (which isn't pewter, but instead a grey-silverish brass alloy containing mostly copper and some zinc with about 1% or 2% or the metal Arsenic) indicates your buttons are from the second half of the 1700s (1750 is technically in the mid-1700s). One button-dating info source I've read says the White-Tombac buttons are "from the 1700s" but they seem to come mainly from second-half-of-the-1700s to early-1800s sites. Your other button being solid-cast brass instead of rolled-&-stamped brass is what makes me think the dig-site dates back to before the early-1800s, when rolled-&-stamped brass 1-piece flatbuttons became the most common civilian-usage metal buttons.

 

[CASPER-2]

The larger of the two - looks like a Tudor Rose - good button
you will find some at bottom of this page
dressbuttons

 

[I-DIG-IT]

Nice digs.

 

[CRUSADER]

Agreed both late 18th C. The slightly funny shaped one is actually one half of a 'linked button'/cufflink.