DHI5404 - Copper/brass artefact
Dirk Hartog Island Wreck
Fourteen pressed metal/ brass type buttons and a small china button were reported and handed over by Ross Mack, DEC Marine Park Ranger at Denham. The buttons were found together in a pile ‘as if placed there by a child’. Two of the buttons, a small and a large size have the same crown surrounded by a laurel design as if from a uniform. Both have the same marking on their reverse side ‘STOKES & SONS MELB’.
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Material Copper/brass
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Number of Items 15
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Site Area Code North West
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Site Location Button hoard site, Cape Inscription lighthouse
Museum Reference
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artefact DHI5404 - Copper/brass
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Registration Number 5404
Artefact information
| artefact | DHI5404 - Copper/brass |
|---|---|
| Ship | Dirk Hartog Island |
| Registration Number | 5404 |
| Description | Fourteen pressed metal/ brass type buttons and a small china button were reported and handed over by Ross Mack, DEC Marine Park Ranger at Denham. The buttons were found together in a pile ‘as if placed there by a child’. Two of the buttons, a small and a large size have the same crown surrounded by a laurel design as if from a uniform. Both have the same marking on their reverse side ‘STOKES & SONS MELB’. |
| Material | Copper/brass |
| Number of Items | 15 |
| Site Area Code | North West |
| Site Location | Button hoard site, Cape Inscription lighthouse |
| Modification date | Mon, 2008-09-15 |
| Date Registered | Mon, 2008-09-15 |
| URL | http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/artefacts/dhi5404-copperbrass |