Button Hill gets me 23 more buttons. Brings a site total up to 520 buttons!!

[matt092079]

Return to button hill. Found a nice stirrup, thimble a couple buckles and 23 buttons. 3 buttons aren't pictured...I found them on the way out after the pictures. A lot of walking...hot spots are drying up, but they are still in there just gotta work harder! This brings my button total to 284! My cousin has found 236 which brings a site total up to 520. We've been hitting this property since the first of September. Amazing!!! Thanks for looking. HH

 

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[Inspector]

That's quite a haul of buttons. WTG & HH

 

[sutphin]

UH,UH, woke up this morning and said today is the day that matt said I was going along, damn I hate dreams. That spot is unreal and the heck with the trowels , knives, shovel , what you need now is some help maybe you missed a few spots. I am really good at cleaning up behind someone ask my wife . Congrats and keep up the good work. Waiting to see them all together cleaned and displayed.vanzutphen

 

[MikeDiG]

What an unbelievable amount of buttons!! Would love to see some of them all cleaned up and their detail. Thanks for sharing!!

 

[matt092079]

Thanks guys.

 

[park pirate]

Awesome thats a lot of buttons congrats..

 

[RobRieman]

That place must have been a colonial button factory Matt! How many different styles are there in the 520 you guys found?

 

[HCW]

That stirrup is nice.
That should clean up well.
I cleaned up an old bit with a steel brush wheel on my bench grinder and then hit it with some Aerokroil.

 

[treblehunter]

That is a very large amount of buttons to have to clean, I found a stirrup very similar to that one up here in South Jersey. Very nice that you can still hit that site and find more of those buttons, keep digging!

 

[pepperj]

Nice going on the stirrup, that's a nice find for sure.

 

[matt092079]

Thanks. Found a few stirrups between the both of us, but not a lot of horse shoes. I've only dug 3 horse shoe halves.

 

[CRUSADER]

Even by our best field button total this is a lot of early buttons. How do you explain it?

 

[matt092079]

Even by our best field button total this is a lot of early buttons. How do you explain it?

I can't explain it. I wish I had the answers. It's not like it's a dump where we are digging buttons by the pile. Mostly all are individual signals. There has been a couple where there's been more than one in a hole. I'd like to say seamstress or tailor that had a work shop and just discarded the old buttons. Found lots of thimbles as well, I'd say more than an average site would have.

 

[Iron Patch]

I only have one that I can say I am very confident it has given up more. It's probably given up 150 early coppers too, so was pretty loaded field. It was just an early settlement with many houses that went on from the mid. 1700s to maybe 1820 or so. Even today many years later you can still go there and find some targets, but it sure does not compare to how it once was. There was also many military and even a very nice trade silver brooch... Spanish silver including cobs, Machin's mills, a Vermont, a rare 1773 Irish Halfpenny.... yeah it rocked. I'll always laugh at how an incredible field never looks any different than a dud, and you don't know until you try.

 

[matt092079]

I only have one that I can say I am very confident it has given up more. It's probably given up 150 early coppers too, so was pretty loaded field. It was just an early settlement with many houses that went on from the mid. 1700s to maybe 1820 or so. Even today many years later you can still go there and find some targets, but it sure does not compare to how it once was. There was also many military and even a very nice trade silver brooch... Spanish silver including cobs, Machin's mills, a Vermont, a rare 1773 Irish Halfpenny.... yeah it rocked. I'll always laugh at how an incredible field never looks any different than a dud, and you don't know until you try.

Needless to say they don't come by very often. Not that they're not out there, just the odds of coming across one again in the near future may be slim. At least I'm in a good area which increases my odds!

 

[Iron Patch]

Needless to say they don't come by very often. Not that their not out their, just the odds of coming across one again in the near future may be slim. At least I'm in a good area which increases my odds!

Yep, might not be as good, but may be more sites close. That was the case for my field above, there was sites in the fields on each side... not as good, but still good.

 

[matt092079]

Yep, might not be as good, but may be more sites close. That was the case for my field above, there was sites in the fields on each side... not as good, but still good.

That's what we're hoping from the neighboring properties. Although one has already given a definite no, but an adjoining property looks promising, the fella actually maintains the field and has cattle in the current property we are hunting.

 

[Cross Potent]

I only have one that I can say I am very confident it has given up more. It's probably given up 150 early coppers too, so was pretty loaded field. It was just an early settlement with many houses that went on from the mid. 1700s to maybe 1820 or so. Even today many years later you can still go there and find some targets, but it sure does not compare to how it once was. There was also many military and even a very nice trade silver brooch... Spanish silver including cobs, Machin's mills, a Vermont, a rare 1773 Irish Halfpenny.... yeah it rocked. I'll always laugh at how an incredible field never looks any different than a dud, and you don't know until you try.

Would love to come across a site like this. Wow. 150 coppers!

 

[Iron Patch]

Would love to come across a site like this. Wow. 150 coppers!

I was not first to hunt that place, but did have one more which I did find that also gave up in the range of 150 large coppers. On day 1 three of us dug 72 including a rare local token my buddy found. On day 2 we dug more, and I got a rare Rev War officer button. That was back in 2000 and I'll certainly never forget it. I call the field The Copper Mine.

 

[DigIron2]

congrats on the stirrup,really nice piece!That place is producing allot.HH