NYC Archaeological Repository:

The Nan A. Rothschild Research Center
NYC Archaelogical Repository:
The Nan A. Rothschild Research Center
Site: Snug Harbor Cultural Center / Project: Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY (1987) / Context

778-2-4

(Post 1870)

Details

  • Collection method

    Excavated using shovel, trowel, and hand pick screened through one quarter inch mesh.

  • Soil

    Dark brown with coal and rocks

Excavation site

Snug Harbor Cultural Center

Staten Island, Snug Harbor Cultural Center

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Part of Project

    • 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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    • SHMC_S1C9_BrownTransPrint_A

Context Objects

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Unidentified Refined Earthenware
SHMC_S2C4_Porcelain
Porcelain
indeterminate
SHMC_S2C4_Bottle_Glass
bottle
Clam Shell
Window glass