Sites I have worked on that have remains from the 1780s/1790s on Norfolk
Island and Sydney/Parramatta (Australia) invariably yielded flat buttons
(British military, naval and convict/free settlers origin). The brass
buttons were sometimes engraved (eg anchor) and coated with a thin layer of
gold or silver. I  haven't found any pewter buttons of that date. Bone/horn
buttons had a single hole. A few of the above are illustrated on my website
under - Archaeology - Phillipsburgh.
 
I have found the convex buttons more common for the 1830s/1840s period -
mainly from military sites though.
 
> 1) How common are pewter and brass buttons with flat faces as
>opposed to the same buttons with slightly rounded (convex) faces? With
>what kind of comparative frequency are convex-faced buttons found on
>archeology sites of our period? Didn't everyone use flat buttons?
 
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