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Bone Button-Making Waste

(18th Century)

CHP_1988_SG5Cx113_ButtonBlank

Archaeological Details

button making, clothes, 18th century, almshouse, sewing, clothing related

  • Object number

    5-1.13

  • Date made

    18th Century

  • Dimensions

    Weight 1 gr

  • Animals/objects

    Button-Making Waste

  • Category

    Historic

  • Material

    Bone

  • Context

    349-5-1.13

  • Forms

    Fragment

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

    • 349-5-1.13

      Late 18th and early 19th century

      Interface between Cx. 1.12 and Cx. 1.14

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