✅ SOLVED Button like relic but not so sure.

[stringplucker]

I posted in the button forum but got no action, so maybe this post is better suited here. Dug at an 1800's farm house site. A few 1700's relics pop up every now and then. I've dug plenty of flat buttons and a few tombac buttons but this one I'm not sure about. The attachment is/was iron. Doesn't look like a rosette to me. Maybe just a big coat button? Any thoughts on this is greatly appreciated.......................................................................... ​

 

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[Dfxcobb]

could be furniture tack

 

[Dfxcobb]

could be furniture tack

 

[smokeythecat]

I'd say button or horse furniture. We get these on old, old sites.

 

[stringplucker]

Thanks guys. I've found smaller size furniture tacks on the property but none this big. The thought didn't even cross my mind. Another learning experience for me. Thanks again.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

That size of "domed" thick-bodied brass disc is a trunk's skid-disc. Those discs were spaced along the (raised) body-bands on the trunk, so it would slide easily across a hard floor or wagon-bed. But note, they weren't only on the bottom of the trunk. (See the photo showing them, below,). The skid-discs were made of brass so they wouldn't leave a rusty stain on somebody's rug, or hotel carpet, after the trunk was carried indoors through rainfall or had sat in a roofless wagon in the rain.

That being said... the skid-disc had to withstand a lot of heavy force, so it was attached to the trunk's body-bands by an iron nail though the disc's center. That's why you see iron on both sides of your disc. Buttons, of course, aren't like that.

 

[CRUSADER]

I'd say button or horse furniture. We get these on old, old sites.

Yeap, these went on 18th C Horse harnesses.

 

[CRUSADER]

These have been IDed as either Furniture fittings or Horse Harness Mounts. They have guessed 16th C - 17th C.
I have found many of them, so many I chuck them, only kept a couple I think.
What I can tell you, is there are lots of variants with varying amounts of circles (or plan) & what is constant is their size & most have a singular iron fixing in the middle (some copper-alloy).
The ones that date to the 18th-19th C have 2 fixings on the other edges;
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/577828

Yours is a variant which I believe dates to the 18th C, see similar;
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/602271 - Plain
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/516542
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/506274
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/798890 (copper-alloy pin)
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/793614

 

[stringplucker]

Thanks for the links Crusader. I couldn't bring myself to throw these away no matter how many I found. The farm house relic collection just keeps growing.