Hartog Plate Copy/replica (broken)

Button, 4-hole trouser type. Brass front and steel (?) back (corroded).

Button, regimental, cone shank w/ steel, loop. Relief markings - front: crown and ‘99’. Back:’GILPIN & Co. LONDON’.

William Gilpin & Co. of 1 Northumberland Street, Strand, were ‘army clothiers’ (see Post Office London Directory, (1846), 1994: 243).
[The 99th Regiment was the military regiment serving in the colony at the time of the Eglinton wreck, i.e. 1852. David Hutchison (1976) reported finding buttons marked ‘LONDON’ at the Sammy Well (Perseverant) site. Unfortunately this button was mislaid (see Hutchison report, 3 May 1976). The button may relate to the detachment of troops stationed on the island in the 1850s.]

Bottle seal

Badge, cast brass on pewter/lead backing; central shield, scratched with w/? letter ‘R’, surrounded by acanthus-type scrolls. [Possibly a regimental badge].

Unid rope fragments, light brown

Tumblers: [Type C] Total 7 complete, 2 70% complete, 2 bases, 22 rim and body sherds.

Jar: salt glazed, some decoration. Possibly tobacco jar.

Caddy [tea/sugar]

Mortar-remains only. Brass.

Bottle: [Type C] champagne style.

Dish: oval shape, complete. Printed mark: 'ANEMONE’; Impressed mark: BB New Stone,... 10.'