Complete brick with no signs of mortar. Likely made in the Netherlands and used as ballast to counterbalance the sailing ship on which it came. In the Netherlands they were used in walls and in paving stones but no yellow brick has been found in place in Manhattan and so we are not certain how this was used.
18
Weight 831.2 gr
Yellow
Ceramic
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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Excavation Unit 27 West Extension, Stratum 7, Level 1
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