Mixed botanical seeds

Recovered from light fraction of flotation sample from between Battery Wall 3 and log feature, Analytical Unit W3 H, Excavation Unit 27, Stratum 4, Level 5. Mixed botanical seeds including: Sedge seed (Carex) total of 1 whole seed. Jimsonweed seed (Datura stramonium) total of 1 seed fragment. Common spikerush seed (Eleocharis palustris) total of 1 whole seed. Strawberry seed (Fragaria) total of 2 whole seeds. Poplar seed (Liriodendron tulipifera) total of 1 whole seed. c.f. Hophornbeam seed (Ostrya virginiana) total of 1 fragment. Cherry seed/pit (Prunus) total of 1 charred seed/pit and 1 fragment. Unidentified A, total of 1 seed fragment. Unidentified B, total of 2 whole seeds and 1 seed fragment. Unidentified C, total of 1 whole seed. Unidentified G, total of 1 whole seed.

South Ferry Terminal

Manhattan, Battery Park, South Ferry Terminal

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