Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

DHI5404 - Copper/brass

Dirk Hartog Island

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’.

Site Area Code North West

Site Location Button hoard site, Cape Inscription lighthouse

Number of Items 15

Material Copper/brass

Museum Reference

Registration Number 5404

ID 111708