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Description: | An incomplete and worn post medieval cast lead alloy military button. Most of the circumferential edge is missing. There are remains of an iron attachment on the integral loop. The button bears the numerals 55 within a wreath.Steve Newman reports:This is a button of the 55th Regt of Foot who were at this time the 55th (Westmoreland) Regt of Foot. There is an earlier design which is suggested to be 1780-1800, so this design likely to have come in circa 1800. It is a pity that the edge is chipped as officers' buttons of the era have a design around the outer edge and I cannot find reference to the same design being in pewter for the other ranks. I have found this style with no edging having been recorded as 'excavated overseas' but sadly not where so I cannot date it from find location and where the regt was at the time. What we know for certain though is that shortly after 1843 the regt added the Chinese dragon to its buttons above the number so the latest it could be would be c1840.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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