It started off a humid and overcast morning in what I have nicknamed "The Old Country" Near Historic Raleigh North Carolina. Normally, one doesn't venture into the forest in the summertime. Rattle snakes, Copperheads , ticks, and heavy overgrowth make metal detecting very difficult in these parts. Being a dedicated metal detecting enthusiast, I get to where I can't stand to be away from the sites that have produced nice historic finds in the past. For me, it's the feeling I get just standing where our forefathers were when times were unsteady and tensions were high with Revolutionary war skirmishes and battles took place. It's almost like the love of Fly fishing and the feeling you get in anticipation before you even present the fly on the Madison River in Montana on a cool spring opening morning of Trout season. If you've been there, you would understand that sentence. In other words, it's a passion. On this trip, I travelled to a spot that had produced a mix of American Revolutionary and Civil war relics. Including Colonial civilian coins and heavily Gilted (Gilt is the shiny gold that adorns most Military buttons invented by the British) buttons. Buttons for some reason have a special place on my relics display wall. I guess it's because some of them played a significant part in everyday life or worn on uniforms in significant battles. The fact that I may be the only one to handle the button in hundreds of years is amazing to me. It's not always the treasure that is exciting, most of the time it's the history that comes with it. Was this Revolutionary or Civil war soldier killed in battle? Was this opera button worn by a prominent figure?