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Collection method
Manual excavation
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Soil
thin black ash and charcoal lens
Contained fire-cracked rock and thermally altered sand particles
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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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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