Castineman1779
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Well if u are saying this site just keeps on giving your are right. In my 23rd year hunting this battle site and still giving me some first's after all these years. In May up to today the 30th found my first Spanish to real coin, 1762, first King George copper with smoothes down to make a design in the center and no doubt a "sweetheart" coin and probably the best British officer gold guinea coin. Kinda hard to beat that one but am just happy finding history of this unknown battle/ siege.
This is a huge site of hundreds of acres and all wooded and with downed trees, tree stumps, steep slopes ,in some areas, and the dreaded tree branches and thorny bushes abound and is indeed challenging . In the words of a famous quote to be successful here one "Has to go where no man(or women)has gone before." If I am still hunting it after 23 years u now it will never be hunted out.
Anyway I decided today to re visit a Brit artillery site about 500 yards from their fort . It took a pounding from Lt Col Revere's artillery in much of the siege of 3 weeks as many mortor frags, grapeshot and solid shot cannon balls have been found their over the years. It is also a duel site when the Brits came back in 1814 and used then by both the Royal Artillery and American 1st Light Artillery. Both periods of buttons have been found there. In fact on Monday dug a 1st Light Artillery coat button. In 2002 my wife and I sifted there and found to date the best condition high lead 74th REgt of Foot vest button. A pic posted here of that button.
So earlier today I decide to hunt it probably for the 9th time in those previous 22 years. Working under a bush I get a good reading and up comes a coat size brass buton. But wait there is more . Always wanted to write that. LOL. I start scratching the front and see silver under the , for a better word, crap on it . Shank is gone but has a little brass where the shank was once sweated on. This indeed now I know is an officer's button but not from either the 74th or 82 Regt of Foot that fought there. It measures measures 25mm and slightly bigger than my 74th officer example of which only 3 known. What we have here folks is an officer's example of a Brit Royal Artillery button found on a known site they placed artillery on. The American's never occupied this site. If you don't know the Brit artillery wore plain brass buttons of which the officer's would be plain as well but silver plated as this one is. Don TRoiani's does not even have an example of either enlisted or officer in his button book. It is not a pretty button but pretty rare as i know no others to date that have been ided to any site but here. . Sorry about the pics as the silver does not do well on a flash. Shines like a new penny in about 75 percent of the face. That one not on my "Bucket List" either. Hope u all enjoy this button. Being in Field Artillery myself makes it even more special for me. Enjoy.Gary
This is a huge site of hundreds of acres and all wooded and with downed trees, tree stumps, steep slopes ,in some areas, and the dreaded tree branches and thorny bushes abound and is indeed challenging . In the words of a famous quote to be successful here one "Has to go where no man(or women)has gone before." If I am still hunting it after 23 years u now it will never be hunted out.
Anyway I decided today to re visit a Brit artillery site about 500 yards from their fort . It took a pounding from Lt Col Revere's artillery in much of the siege of 3 weeks as many mortor frags, grapeshot and solid shot cannon balls have been found their over the years. It is also a duel site when the Brits came back in 1814 and used then by both the Royal Artillery and American 1st Light Artillery. Both periods of buttons have been found there. In fact on Monday dug a 1st Light Artillery coat button. In 2002 my wife and I sifted there and found to date the best condition high lead 74th REgt of Foot vest button. A pic posted here of that button.
So earlier today I decide to hunt it probably for the 9th time in those previous 22 years. Working under a bush I get a good reading and up comes a coat size brass buton. But wait there is more . Always wanted to write that. LOL. I start scratching the front and see silver under the , for a better word, crap on it . Shank is gone but has a little brass where the shank was once sweated on. This indeed now I know is an officer's button but not from either the 74th or 82 Regt of Foot that fought there. It measures measures 25mm and slightly bigger than my 74th officer example of which only 3 known. What we have here folks is an officer's example of a Brit Royal Artillery button found on a known site they placed artillery on. The American's never occupied this site. If you don't know the Brit artillery wore plain brass buttons of which the officer's would be plain as well but silver plated as this one is. Don TRoiani's does not even have an example of either enlisted or officer in his button book. It is not a pretty button but pretty rare as i know no others to date that have been ided to any site but here. . Sorry about the pics as the silver does not do well on a flash. Shines like a new penny in about 75 percent of the face. That one not on my "Bucket List" either. Hope u all enjoy this button. Being in Field Artillery myself makes it even more special for me. Enjoy.Gary
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