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Pocket Knife

TC_P1_U6L1_24_140

Archaeological Details

Bone-handled iron pocket knife reading "JESUS NEVER FAILS". Conservation needed. Deteriorating badly.

Excavation Site

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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Part of Project

    • Tweed Courthouse, City Hall Park, New York, NY (2003)

      2000 - 2001

      Archaeological work completed adjacent to Tweed Courthouse in City Hall Park uncovered many archaeological resources dating to the 18th and 19th centuries. Most significantly, a burial ground and fragmentary human remains were revealed as well as a privy, and a ...

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    • tweed

Part of Context

    • 365-24

      Historic fill with historic materials & scattered human remains

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