Clay pipe fragments(7)found in Battery Park
Classification:
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Date:
1820-1870
Medium:
Clay
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 5/8 x 7/8 x 1 1/2 in. ( 4.1 x 2.2 x 3.8 cm )
Description:
Clay pipe fragments found in Battery Park; includes plain and ornamental stems and bowls
Object Number:
INV.7875.53-59
Gallery Label:
These fragments were found by New-York Historical Society staff members in Battery Park during the excavations for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel from 1948 through 1950.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1870
eMuseum Object ID:
29887
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bone fragment found in Battery Park
Classification:
Date:
1820-1870
Medium:
Bone
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 1/4 x 3/4 x 7/16 in. ( 8.3 x 1.9 x 1.1 cm )
Description:
Bone fragment found in Battery Park
Object Number:
INV.7875.52
Gallery Label:
This fragment was found by New-York Historical Society staff members in Battery Park during the excavations for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel from 1948 through 1950.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1870
eMuseum Object ID:
29886
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Metal fragments found in Battery Park
Classification:
Date:
1820-1870
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 3/8 x 3/4 x 1/4 in. ( 3.5 x 1.9 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Metal fragments found in Battery Park.
Object Number:
INV.7875.51
Gallery Label:
These fragments were found by New-York Historical Society staff members in Battery Park during the excavations for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel from 1948 through 1950.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1870
eMuseum Object ID:
29885
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Glassware (2) excavated at a British and Hessian Revolutionary War fort and camp
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Classification:
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Date:
1760-1783
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
largest: 2 1/2 x 1 3/4 x 3/8 in. ( 6.4 x 4.4 x 1 cm )
Description:
Glassware excavated at the British and Hessian camp on Laurel Hill at Fort George, along Audubon and Eleventh Avenues and between 190th and 194th Streets in Washington Heights, Manhattan; includes a colorless stemware foot and a light-green lip from a vial.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Washington Headquarters Association, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1947
Object Number:
INV.6318.353-354
Gallery Label:
This glassware was excavated by the Field Exploration Committee at the British and Hessian camp on Laurel Hill at Fort George, in Washington Heights. It was housed for many years as part of the Reginald Pelham Bolton Collection of Revolutionary War Relics in the Jumel Mansion, at 160th Street and Edgecomb Avenue. According to a label on the stemware foot, it was found on 189th Street and Eleventh Avenue in 1902. According to a label on the vial, it was excavated from a hut on 192nd Street.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1783
eMuseum Object ID:
29869
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bottleglass fragments found in Battery Park
Classification:
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Date:
1820-1870
Medium:
Glass
Description:
Bottle glass fragments found in Battery Park from clear wine and liquor bottles.
Object Number:
INV.7875.30-34
Gallery Label:
These fragments were found by New-York Historical Society staff members in Battery Park during the excavations for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel from 1948 through 1950.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1870
eMuseum Object ID:
29850
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bayonet
Classification:
Date:
1760-1783
Medium:
Iron
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 5/8 x 1 1/4 in. ( 57.5 x 3.2 cm )
Description:
Iron bayonet; angular.
Object Number:
INV.5608.17
Gallery Label:
This bayonet was excavated by Reginald P. Bolton and others from the floors of twenty huts that were built onto the side of a hill that once stood on the east side of Broadway at Arden Street in Washington Heights, Manhattan. Built after the surrender of Fort Washington by American forces on November 16, 1776, the camp was occupied by British and Hessian troops until evacuation in 1783.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1783
eMuseum Object ID:
29849
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Ceramic fragments (31) found in Battery Park
Classification:
Highlight:
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Date:
1820-1870
Medium:
Ceramic
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 x 3 x 1 in. ( 15.2 x 7.6 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
Ceramic fragments found in Battery Park; ceramic types include salt-glazed stonewares, transfer-printed whitewares, blue shell-edged earthenwares (pearlwares), and Rockingham ware.
Object Number:
INV.7875.1-29
Marks:
stamped: (1a), on body: "VITREOUS STONE/WARRANTED NOT.../J.BO.../PATE.../GODN.../NE../
stamped: (13), on base: "...FELLOW/IRONSTONE CHINA"
printed: (28), on base: "IRONSTONE CHI.../J. HEATH"
Gallery Label:
These fragments were found by New-York Historical Society staff members in Battery Park during the excavations for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel from 1948 through 1950.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1870
eMuseum Object ID:
29845
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mug
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1750
Medium:
Pewter
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 3/8 x 7 x 4 3/8 in. ( 13.7 x 17.8 x 11.1 cm )
Description:
Crumpled and broken mug on raised base with double scroll handle, and small scroll thumbpiece.
Credit Line:
Gift of John D. Crimmins
Object Number:
1893.5a
Gallery Label:
According to donor, this mug was excavated from the hulk of a vessel on Front Street between Broad and Whitehall Streets, while digging for the proposed power house for the Cable Road.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1750
eMuseum Object ID:
29360
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Lead pencil excavated at West Point
Classification:
Date:
1760-1783
Medium:
Lead
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 7/8 x 1/8 in. ( 4.8 x 0.3 cm )
Description:
Lead pencil excavated at West Point; narrow, rectangular strip.
Object Number:
INV.5925.244
Gallery Label:
This pencil was excavated by the Field Exploration Committee at West Point, a series of barracks and forts built in Orange County, New York by the Continental Army in 1777. West Point was built to establish control of the Hudson River. Soldiers fashioned the pencil from musket ball lead.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1783
eMuseum Object ID:
28874
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Glass fragments (2)
Classification:
Date:
1760-1783
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
largest: 5/8 x 1 in. ( 1.6 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
Colorless rims with diamond pattern.
Object Number:
INV.5802.46-47
Gallery Label:
According to an attached label, these fragments were excavated by Reginald P. Bolton and others at a Revolutionary War site in Washington Heights, Manhattan. The label did not identify the site.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1783
eMuseum Object ID:
28678
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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