Unique Surface Find

[Fentonian]

Well I was detecting when I spotted this on the surface of the field walking to the site I wanted to hunt. First Bone button I have ever recovered and will probably be the last, I don’t see how it survived this many years laying out in the elements. Thought I would share with everyone here….

 

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[Sandog]

Congrats on such a unique find. First I have personally seen on here.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

That's different - congrats !

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice bone button. You dont see those very often.

 

[Kona Koma]

Well I was detecting when I spotted this on the surface of the field walking to the site I wanted to hunt. First Bone button I have ever recovered and will probably be the last, I don’t see how it survived this many years laying out in the elements. Thought I would share with everyone here….View attachment 2080955View attachment 2080954

Nice find.

 

[Fentonian]

Anyway to date this button? Or anyone have a idea on age?

 

[scruggs]

Unique find you made!

 

[ticndig]

Anyway to date this button? Or anyone have a idea on age?

17th-19th centuries . I found a half dozen over the years , all in union dug in camps.

Bone buttons were often constructed in the home during the 17th and 18th centuries. Usually made of cow or pig bone, the raw material is soaked or steamed to soften. It is then separated into sheets (thickness of the desired button), and a circular saw is used to cut out and remove the button blanks. These are polished, and holes are drilled into the body to allow sewing onto garments. A few of the later ones from the 19th century are mounted on metal shanks. Plain bone buttons tend to be utilitarian in nature, such as fastening undergarments. Carved or inlaid bone buttons were produced in the second half of the 19th century in factories, and were intended for fancy outer wear. Not only buttons are recovered, but the strips of prepared bone with holes cut from them for blanks are recovered in site excavations.

https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1042&context=utk_chanhonoproj

 

[Fentonian]

17th-19th centuries . I found a half dozen over the years , all in union dug in camps.

Bone buttons were often constructed in the home during the 17th and 18th centuries. Usually made of cow or pig bone, the raw material is soaked or steamed to soften. It is then separated into sheets (thickness of the desired button), and a circular saw is used to cut out and remove the button blanks. These are polished, and holes are drilled into the body to allow sewing onto garments. A few of the later ones from the 19th century are mounted on metal shanks. Plain bone buttons tend to be utilitarian in nature, such as fastening undergarments. Carved or inlaid bone buttons were produced in the second half of the 19th century in factories, and were intended for fancy outer wear. Not only buttons are recovered, but the strips of prepared bone with holes cut from them for blanks are recovered in site excavations.

https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1042&context=utk_chanhonoproj

Thanks!

 

[Digger RJ]

Well I was detecting when I spotted this on the surface of the field walking to the site I wanted to hunt. First Bone button I have ever recovered and will probably be the last, I don’t see how it survived this many years laying out in the elements. Thought I would share with everyone here….View attachment 2080955View attachment 2080954

Nice!!! Congrats!!!