Pink Conch shell from the Caribbean with a number of saw marks and part of the shell has been removed in strips to make buttons or beads. On loan to the Museum of the City of New York and can be seen on display in their exhibition "New York at its Core" through January 2027.
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Conch (Family Strombidae)
Fauna
October 2004 - March 2006
Archaeological work completed between 2004 and 2005 as part of a large scale construction of a subway infrastructure project in Battery Park and the adjacent area uncovered segments of the 18th-century defensive Battery, resources associated with Whitehall Slip, and ...
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Whitehall Slip.23 Miscellaneous Find Between Decking Column 18-Decking Column 20 (C18-C20). One artifact was recovered in this context, and is discussed in the Site Report, page 6-61: This pink conch shell, probably collected somewhere in the ...
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The city's archaeological collections include many animal bones and shells which can tell us a great deal about what people once ate, and what the past environment was like. The following artifacts include: shells and bones of animals ...
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