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The Nan A. Rothschild Research Center
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Oyster Shell

Archaeological Details

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

    • City Hall, New York, NY (1991)

      Testing, monitoring, and excavations uncovered historic burials, thousands of disarticulated human remains, a privy, a cold storage shed and other finds. The burials are either from the almshouse (most likely), African Burial Ground, or Revolutionary War prisoners. The artifacts and ...

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    • buried history

Part of Context

    • 349-3a-1.08

      Late 18th and early 19th century

      Secondary fill

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Related Objects

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CHP_1988_SG3ACx108_Bottle
bottle
CHP_1988_SG3ACx108_Creamware_A
impressed creamware fragment

(1762)

CHP_1988_SG3ACx108_Nail
iron nail
CHP_1988_SG3ACx108_Tooth
Mammal Teeth
CHP_1988_SG3ACx108_Bead
Melted Glass Droplet

(18th Century)

CHP_1988_SG3Ax108_PearlButton
Mother of Pearl Button
CHP_1988_SG3ACx108_Whiteware
Transfer-Printed whiteware fragment
CHP_1988_SG3ACx108_Buffware
Unidentified Buff bodied
CHP_1988_SG3ACx108_Buff
Unidentified Buff bodied
CHP_1988_SG3ACx108_Creamware
Unidentified creamware
CHP_1988_SG3ACx108_Window
Window glass
brick
Ceramic fragment
Clam Shell
glass vessel
indeterminate
indeterminate
Indeterminated glass
Mammal Bone
Not listed in original catalog pearlware
Oyster Shell