A Few 2 Tone Ferrous Finds

[dgc]

Not much, but I was pleased with pulling a few finds from an iron nail infested site I have hit pretty hard this year. Dug a shield nickel along with some buttons. Two of the buttons were pretty small. You can just make out the 5 on the shield nickel. The obverse is almost completely gone. No way to get a date.

2 Tone Ferrous worked well. Wish I could have hunted a little harder but the 97 degree temp here today made it tough. In a wide open field with no shade, I wore down pretty badly.

 

[Bilko]

how old are those finds. Well done!

 

[Goes4ever]

those nickels don't hold up well in a field, but I'd still be happy to find it! congrats

 

[NebTrac]

Thanks DGC. I'd be happy finding a shield nickel! That would be a first for me anyway. Congratulations on the finds and working the 2-Tone Fe.

NebTrac

 

[dgc]

how old are those finds. Well done!

The upper left button is a tombac and is probably the oldest item in the photo. Tombac was a brass alloy with a high percentages of zinc and sometimes arsenic. This alloy can range from yellow to aluminum in color. It is often still shiny when excavated and was commonly used for buttons in the eighteenth century, particularly 1770-1800 (see Warren K. Tice, Uniform Buttons of the United States 1776-1865, page 2).

The site I am hunting has produced finds from the late 1700s all the way to the present. The oldest coin I have found there is a 1783 Spanish 1/2 Real.

 

[EladSwerdna]

how old are those finds. Well done!

The upper left button is a tombac and is probably the oldest item in the photo. Tombac was a brass alloy with a high percentages of zinc and sometimes arsenic. This alloy can range from yellow to aluminum in color. It is often still shiny when excavated and was commonly used for buttons in the eighteenth century, particularly 1770-1800 (see Warren K. Tice, Uniform Buttons of the United States 1776-1865, page 2).

The site I am hunting has produced finds from the late 1700s all the way to the present. The oldest coin I have found there is a 1783 Spanish 1/2 Real.

Hmm your site sounds exactly like the one I hunt, minus the iron infetsation. How many buttons have you pulled out of there?

 

[dgc]

Hmm your site sounds exactly like the one I hunt, minus the iron infetsation. How many buttons have you pulled out of there?

I have dug over a hundred buttons at this site. All plain, flat, civilian except for the War of 1812 era Artillery button I posted here a couple of days ago.