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The Nan A. Rothschild Research Center
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Bone Button-Making Waste

Archaeological Details

button making, clothes, sewing, button blank

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

    • 365-715

      late 18th to early 19th century

      Privy soils with a high concentration of late 18th to early 19th century artifacts

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    • TC_F16_L4

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