NYC Archaeological Repository:

The Nan A. Rothschild Research Center
NYC Archaelogical Repository:
The Nan A. Rothschild Research Center
Collections / Map / Site: City Hall Park

349-6-1.14

(Late 18th and early 19th century)

Details

  • Collection method

    Manual excavation

  • Soil

    thin dark yellowish-brown lens of sandy silty rain wash sediments

Excavation site

City Hall Park

Manhattan, City Hall Park, South of Chambers Street and East of Broadway between City Hall and Tweed Court House

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Part of Project

    • City Hall, New York, NY (1991)

      Testing, monitoring, and excavations uncovered historic burials, thousands of disarticulated human remains, a privy, a cold storage shed and other finds. The burials are either from the almshouse (most likely), African Burial Ground, or Revolutionary War prisoners. The artifacts and ...

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    • buried history

Context Objects

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brick
Unidentified Buff bodied
CHP_1988_SG5Cx114_PipeStems
Smoking Pipe Stem
Oyster Shell
Unidentified pearlware

(1780)

CHP_1988_SG5Cx114_ButtonBlank
Bone Button-Making Waste

(18th Century)