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Collection method
Excavated using shovel, trowel, and hand pick screened through one quarter inch mesh.
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Soil
Very dark grey-brown gravel
Found 19th century rock path below road shown on 1906 Topographic Map of Richmond County
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Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY (1987)
August 1985
A sheet midden deposited between 1845 and 1900 was uncovered in a natural depression to the west of the Matron's Cottage on the former grounds of Sailors' Snug Harbor, one of the first retirement homes in the United States that ...
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