SC Keith
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3rd regt Continental Dragoons
Unique pewter field cast button from SC and shown as found, no restorations. From Troiani: "Looks like a field made piece. 3RLD is pretty explicit though...I would like to use it in my book update.."
From William Leigh: "The 3RLD button which you recently found is a rare and, as yet, unique button of the American Revolutionary War."
Entered in WE&T best finds 2009 and made cover.
The state of material need concerning Col. William Washington's 3rd Dragoons as existed in 1781 during operations in SC is summed up in this quote--
July 22, 1781 - Excerpt from General Greene in camp at High Hills of the Santee to Marquis de Lafayette: "...Colonel Washington's Regiment is in distress for want of Cloathing and every necesssary, and is of it self very small......"
HH TNET!
Unique pewter field cast button from SC and shown as found, no restorations. From Troiani: "Looks like a field made piece. 3RLD is pretty explicit though...I would like to use it in my book update.."
From William Leigh: "The 3RLD button which you recently found is a rare and, as yet, unique button of the American Revolutionary War."
Entered in WE&T best finds 2009 and made cover.
The state of material need concerning Col. William Washington's 3rd Dragoons as existed in 1781 during operations in SC is summed up in this quote--
July 22, 1781 - Excerpt from General Greene in camp at High Hills of the Santee to Marquis de Lafayette: "...Colonel Washington's Regiment is in distress for want of Cloathing and every necesssary, and is of it self very small......"
HH TNET!
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Those two stoke my fire every time I see them!
Dang it those are freekin' amazing pieces...
It is an honor just to view this find over the forum. I bet holding it is so much better. That button right there solidified your spot in the "Colonial Metal Detecting Hall of Fame." 
