NYC Archaeological Repository:

The Nan A. Rothschild Research Center
NYC Archaelogical Repository:
The Nan A. Rothschild Research Center
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Archaeological Details

interior

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

    • 349-7-5001

      18th century

      Long, rectangular builders' trench

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Related Objects

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CHP_1988_SG7F5001_Teeth
Mammal Teeth
CHP_1988_SG7F5001_StoneHandle
Salt Glazed, Gray Bodied Stoneware fragment
CHP_1988_SG7F5001_DecoratedStem
Smoking pipe
CHP_1988_SG7F5001_DecoratedBowl
Smoking pipe
CHP_1988_SG7F5001_TinGlaze
Tin Glazed earthenware

(1600)

CHP_1988_SG7F5001_EngBuff
Unidentified Buff bodied

(1670)

CHP_1988_SG7F5001_WhiteSalt
White Salt Glazed stoneware fragment

(1725)

brick
Ceramic fragment
Clam Shell
Clam Shell
Fish Vertegrae
indeterminate
Indeterminated glass
iron nail
Mammal Bone
Oyster Shell
Oyster Shell
plaster
Salt Glazed, Gray Bodied Stoneware fragment

(1700)

Salt Glazed, Gray Bodied Stoneware fragment