BRITISH 71st Regimental Camp- Round 2

[Patriot Relics]

Hey guys,

Got back out this weekend to the British Revolutionary War camp that produced a few brown bess components and 71st regiment of foot button last week. While the targets are heavily masked by iron, we were confident there were more relics in the dirt. For this week, I elected to run the Deus rather than the CTX to compare success. While I love the CTX stability in highly mineralized conditions, this site is certainly a better fit for the DEUS target separation. Covering the exact same dirt, I managed to dig a staggering 4 harness bosses...completed masked to the CTX. I'd like to speculate that they may of belonged to the British occupation force, however I suspect they are early to mid 1700s. Feel free to weigh in-



The only button I recovered was an early one- late 17th to early 18th century 2 piece button.



Among the other finds was lead slag, iron rose head nails, and the base to a iron kettle. The big surprise came late after digging the shell rosette. After digging the plug I noticed large amounts of black glass in the hole. A bit of investigation revealed an undisturbed 18th century glass dump. While I'm not a glass collector, the amount of black glass was ridiculous-perhaps the results of a serious British kegger



All in all a productive day digging although the hunt continues for my next regimental button. Thanks for looking

 

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[Bill D. (VA)]

Great hunt John. I love to get in those trash dumps as you never know what might come out (maybe a bottle seal with all that glass). I think you should sift that spot to see what you may have missed, and I think you'll be surprised. BTW - that item in your first 2 pics is an 18th century reins guide. Nice job!

 

[Patriot Relics]

Great hunt John. I love to get in those trash dumps as you never know what might come out (maybe a bottle seal with all that glass). I think you should sift that spot to see what you may have missed, and I think you'll be surprised. BTW - that item in your first 2 pics is an 18th century reins guide. Nice job!

Thanks for the ID help Bill, any military association with the reins guide or was the style widely used? Hopefully DownNDirty puts a seal together...he's got an entire rubber made full of glass shards

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Thanks for the ID help Bill, any military association with the reins guide or was the style widely used? Hopefully DownNDirty puts a seal together...he's got an entire rubber made full of glass shards

That guide with a swirl design is quite common and is probably not military related. Bottle seals are found whole most of the time as they were thick globs of glass that usually survive well. But those bottle necks look to be from late 1700s cylindricals and seals were mostly out of style by then although some were still used during that period.

 

[Vino]

Boy that looks like a real fun hunt Jon,
They are some great bottle necks.
Shame you couldn't come up with a whole one.
That 2 piece button looks like a blow hole.
I find them a lot at my early sites up here.
Some have holes and some don't.
Good job and that's for posting.
I'm going crazy up here with all the snow we just got.

 

[Patriot Relics]

Boy that looks like a real fun hunt Jon,
They are some great bottle necks.
Shame you couldn't come up with a whole one.
That 2 piece button looks like a blow hole.
I find them a lot at my early sites up here.
Some have holes and some don't.
Good job and that's for posting.
I'm going crazy up here with all the snow we just got.

Definitely resembled a gas expansion/blowhole button but didn't have the characteristic holes on the reverse. Hopefully that weather clears soon so you can get back out

 

[payload77]

Dude, stellar finds!

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice hunt - Deus rules

 

[gheenoe78]

Great finds man. Those harness bosses are cool.

 

[trapperart]

Very nice congrats

 

[digging440yrs]

Awesome hunt ! Gotta be a whole bottle there somewhere, good luck

 

[DownNDirty]

The harness bosses are killer. I'll post my finds tonight-mostly the mountain of black glass

 

[DownNDirty]

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[Darby]

Great group of finds Jon! You seen to have a knack for finding good sites. Big congrats!

 

[Patriot Relics]

Nice hunt - Deus rules

Thanks Cru, love the CTX but the Deus has it's perks

 

[CRUSADER]

Thanks Cru, love the CTX but the Deus has it's perks

Not killing my back is one of my biggest reasons.

 

[Patriot Relics]

Awesome hunt ! Gotta be a whole bottle there somewhere, good luck

That's what we thought, although the pit wasn't that deep, may have been discarded during the occupation

 

[Patriot Relics]

Not killing my back is one of my biggest reasons.

Yes she is definitely a heavy machine

 

[Pacivilwarluke]

Oh my goodness! All of those broken bottles are incredible! Awesome history right there I bet you could reassemble the majority of some of them if you sorted them out haha! WTG!

 

[Steve in PA]

Nice examples of 18th century harness brass.