Nine fragments of burnt and melted unidentified glass with heavy patinas. Likely burned during the Great Fire of 1835 in New York City. The artifacts have individual object numbers.
234
Unidentifiable
Glass
Burned
melted
April 1981 - June 1981
This excavation conducted in 1981 uncovered archaeological resources from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The report is in 6 volumes. Please click the following to access each volume: The Archaeological Evaluation of the Seven Hanover Square Block, New York, ...
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ca. 1841
This deposit is located between floors #2 and #3 in Lot 28. Excavation began at the level of the wooden basement floor of the most recent building to stand on the lot and revealed the remains of two additional wooden ...
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1835
Fire was a constant threat in dense places like New York. From the days of Dutch settlement in the early 1600s, city leaders had tried to legislate away the danger in various ways–mandating brick rather than wood construction, ...
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(Post 1630)
(1762 - 1820)
