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Bone Button-Making Waste

TC_P2_703_1

Archaeological Details

button making, clothes, sewing, button blank

  • Object number

    703-1

  • Animals/objects

    Button-Making Waste

  • Material

    Bone

  • Context

    365-703

  • 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

    • 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

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