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CHP_1988_SG3BCx110_Button_A
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Archaeological Details

Not listed in original catalog Clothing, sewing related

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

    • 349-3b-1.1

      Late 18th and early 19th century

      Secodary fill

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CHP_1988_SG3BCx110_Button_A
button
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Salt Glazed, Brown Bodied Stoneware fragment
CHP_1988_SG3Cx110_Pearlware
Unidentified pearlware
CHP_1988_SG3BCx110_Glass
Window glass
Clam Shell
indeterminate
Mammal Bone
Smoking pipe