Name/Title
French Military Doublet Button Jean Rebault Fleet Matanzas Massacre Site #7 (115)Description
Cast bronze alloy, open-work button, then hand finished by the craftsman. These buttons were in common use by both Spanish and French forces from the early 16th to mid-17th centuries. It retains a partial toggle and originally would have been gilded in gold.Context
This button was recovered in the mid-1980s from a beach site near the Matanzas Inlet. While the exact massacre site of Jean Rebault's crew remains officially unknown (to state archaeologists), the site's exact location absolutely is known to a small group of local metal detectorists and historians (who are at still in a long-running dispute with state archaeologists and so will not share the site's location).