Blow hole button, warranted button, and pendant watch?

[saracasella]

These items were found in a small town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

The pendant is a glass dome with a clock face inside.. I'm assuming Roman numerals for the numbers although I can't make out a single one clearly. The only thing I can make out inside the glass is a small 5 with a circle around it next to one of the Roman numerals.

The one button says "warranted" with a little asterisk looking symbol and two other small symbols (I think they look like pitch forks). There are other letters around the perimeter of it... They were weird and almost looked mirrored, if that makes sense. For instance if you looked at it one way, it looked like an "OR" and then you can see them going backwards. I found them at an old home site- it isn't listed on any maps.

The other button is a blow hole button which is pretty awesome.

We found so many buttons at this site, random pieces of lead, this little watch pendant, colonial shoe buckles, musket ball, a fabrique bale seal (posted on one of my other post thingies), bullion coin weight. There was also a tiny thimble found. Are we thinking it was a trading post?

This website is so generic I don't even know if my pictures attached.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Besides saying "warranted" in the center circle, the rest of the backmark says "Treble Gilt / Orange Colour" -- to read it, orient the button with the TR(eble) at 10 o'clock and the OR(ange) at 8 o'clock. Because all of your British-made brass 1-piece flatbutton backmark's lettering is written in indented (rather than raised) lettering, it dates from sometime between about 1810 on into the early-1830s. The War-of-1812 between the US and Britain caused a 10-year interruption in the importation of British-made manufactured goods, due to US customer resentment (and boycott) of Britain even after the war ended, so I think your flatbutton is most likely from the 1820s.

Since you already know your other button (back) is from a blowhole button, I assume I don't need to say anything about its time-period.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I'm not seeing 'trading post' finds here, looks more likely to be an early homestead site.
As TheCannonballGuy suggested, your button finds are British-made from around 1820, the pendant watch looks to date from the Georgian Period.

Look for pottery, glass and oyster shells in the soil, these are good indicators of the date range for a site as well.

Nice finds from an early site.
Dave

 

[saracasella]

Thank you for your reply! We were at a different site last week that we just randomly started detecting. We ran across brick. Then buttons, then while digging a lot of random oyster shells. We found two musket balls, pewter flat buttons, molded flat buttons with drilled shanks, a tombac, two glass buttons with some kind of metal. We found some old glass as well. What time period do you think?