Complete large (@8" length) Queen or Pink Conch (Strombus gigas) shell. Surface is badly weathered and cracked. Native habitat is the Caribbean. Novelty item or part of ballast?
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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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Battery Place Soldier Pile Pit 54 (SPP 54), ~3' depth
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