NYC Archaeological Repository:

The Nan A. Rothschild Research Center
NYC Archaelogical Repository:
The Nan A. Rothschild Research Center
Site: South Ferry Terminal / Project: South Ferry Terminal, New York, NY (2012) / Context

1439- South Ferry - Whitehall Slip 15598.200

(Terminus Post Quem (TPQ) 1790)

Details

Secant Pile 45, 10-15 feet below ground surface (SP 0045.3)

  • Collection method

    Three-foot diameter machine-mounted auger

  • Soil description

    Very dark brown, black or gray muck

Excavation site

South Ferry Terminal

Manhattan, Battery Park, South Ferry Terminal

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Part of Project

    • South Ferry Terminal, New York, NY (2012)

      October 2004 - March 2006

      Archaeological work completed between 2004 and 2005 as part of a large scale construction of a subway infrastructure project in Battery Park and the adjacent area uncovered segments of the 18th-century defensive Battery, resources associated with Whitehall Slip, and 17th ...

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    • Battery Wall Excavation Images 12/28/2005

Context Objects

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South Ferry Terminal - Whitehall Slip
Glass Wine Bottle Base/Body Sherd

(1730 - 1920)

Dutch-Style Redware Body Sherd

(1620 - 1710)

South Ferry Terminal - Whitehall Slip
Lustreware Body Sherd

(1790 - 1840)

South Ferry Terminal - Whitehall Slip
Unidentified Bird Sacrum
South Ferry Terminal - Whitehall Slip
Chicken (Gallus gallus) Tarsometatarsus
Passenger Pigeon Sternum