Bayonet socket

Classification: 
Date: 
1760-1783
Medium: 
Iron
Description: 
Iron bayonet socket; cylindrical.
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Washington Headquarters Association, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1947
Object Number: 
INV.5945.2
Gallery Label: 
This bayonet socket was found by Reginald P. Bolton and others on Fort Washington Avenue in Washington Heights, Manhattan.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1783
eMuseum Object ID: 
4650
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Projectile points (2)

Classification: 
Date: 
1500-1700
Medium: 
Flint
Dimensions: 
largest: 2 3/8 x 5/8 in. ( 6 x 1.6 cm )
Description: 
Flint projectile points; arrowheads; one is leaf-shaped, other triangular.
Object Number: 
INV.6288.6-7
Gallery Label: 
According to an attached label, these fragments were found at Maspeth in Queens, New York City. The label gave a date of July, 1929, but did not say whether the objects were found on that date, or donated to the Society on that date.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1700
eMuseum Object ID: 
4407
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Beads (2)

Classification: 
Date: 
1700-1850
Medium: 
Glass
Dimensions: 
largest: 1/2 in. ( 1.3 cm )
Description: 
Glass beads; blue.
Object Number: 
INV.6288.9-10
Gallery Label: 
According to an attached label, these fragments were found at Maspeth in Queens, New York City. The label gave a date of January 15, 1929, but did not say whether the objects were found on that date, or donated to the Society on that date.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1850
eMuseum Object ID: 
4390
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Fragments of tureen (14) excavated at Fort Washington

Classification: 
Date: 
1760-1783
Medium: 
Porcelain
Dimensions: 
Overall: 3 x 10 in. ( 7.6 x 25.4 cm )
Description: 
Porcelain tureen fragments; underglazed blue decoration on exterior and diaper design at base; twelve base and two body fragments.
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Washington Headquarters Association, Daughters of the American Revolution
Object Number: 
1947.572a-n
Gallery Label: 
These tureen fragments were excavated by the Field Exploration Committee from a refuse deposit outside the south ramparts of Fort Washington. Built by the Continental Army in the summer of 1776, the fort extended west along 183rd Street between Fort Washington and Pinehurst Avenues. The fort was captured by British and Hessian forces on November 16, 1776, and was occupied by them until 1783.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1783
eMuseum Object ID: 
4385
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Beads (2)

Classification: 
Date: 
1700-1850
Medium: 
Glass
Dimensions: 
largest: 3/8 in. ( 1 cm )
Description: 
Glass beads; blue with hole in center.
Object Number: 
INV.6288.19-20
Gallery Label: 
According to an attached label, these fragments were found at Maspeth in Queens, New York City. The label gave a date of July, 1929, but did not say whether the objects were found on that date, or donated to the Society on that date.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1850
eMuseum Object ID: 
4270
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Gunflints (5) excavated at a Revolutionary War military hut

Classification: 
Date: 
1760-1783
Medium: 
Flint
Dimensions: 
largest: 3/8 x 1 in. ( 1 x 2.5 cm )
Description: 
Gunflints; three brown and one black.
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Washington Headquarters Association, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1947
Object Number: 
INV.6100.366-370
Gallery Label: 
These flints were excavated by Reginald P. Bolton and others from a military hut at 182nd Street between Fort Washington and Bennett Avenues. The hut was built sometime after the surrender of Fort Washington on November 16, 1776, and was probably occupied by officers of the British and Hessian garrisons of the fort.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1783
eMuseum Object ID: 
3971
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Buttons

Classification: 
Date: 
1760-1783
Medium: 
Pewter
Dimensions: 
largest: 1/8 x 7/8 in. ( 0.3 x 2.2 cm )
Description: 
Pewter buttons; flat disks.
Object Number: 
INV.5716.62-68
Gallery Label: 
These buttons were excavated by the Field Exploration Committee from a refuse deposit near a military camp and fort at Richmond, Staten Island. Built after the arrival of British forces under General William Howe in July, 1776, the fort was occupied by British and Hessian troops until evacuation in 1783.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1783
eMuseum Object ID: 
3737
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Buttons (3) excavated at a Revolutionary War military hut

Classification: 
Date: 
1760-1783
Medium: 
Bone
Dimensions: 
largest: 5/8 in. ( 1.6 cm )
Description: 
Bone buttons; two are pierced with four holes; one with five.
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Washington Headquarters Association, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1947
Object Number: 
INV.6100.356-358
Gallery Label: 
These buttons were excavated by Reginald P. Bolton and others from a military hut at 182nd Street between Fort Washington and Bennett Avenues. The hut was built sometime after the surrender of Fort Washington on November 16, 1776, and was probably occupied by officers of the British and Hessian garrisons of the fort.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1783
eMuseum Object ID: 
3677
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Framed set of bone buttons, button molds, and iron tool (33) excavated at Fort H

Classification: 
Date: 
1779-1783
Medium: 
Bone, iron
Dimensions: 
largest: 3 x 7/8 in. ( 7.6 x 2.2 cm )
Description: 
Bone buttons, button molds, and iron cutting tool; the six molds are flat strips of bone with circular cutouts; twenty-six buttons pierced with holes; cutting tool is flat strip of iron with small point at one end.
Object Number: 
INV.5940.164-196
Gallery Label: 
These buttons were excavated by the Field Exploration Committee from a refuse pit at Fort Haldimand, a British fort on Carleton Island in the St. Lawrence River in New York, just below the Canadian border. Built in 1779, the fort commanded passage of the river and was retained by the British until its destruction by American forces in 1812. British or Loyalist soldiers cut the molds from animal bones, and shaped buttons in the molds using the cutting tool.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1783
eMuseum Object ID: 
3552
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Cannonball excavated at a Revolutionary War military site

Classification: 
Date: 
1760-1783
Medium: 
Iron
Dimensions: 
Overall: 2 1/2 in. ( 6.4 cm )
Description: 
Iron cannonball.
Object Number: 
INV.6318.396
Gallery Label: 
This cannonball was excavated by Reginald Pelham Bolton and others at a military camp that extended between 190th and 194th Streets, and Audobon and Eleventh Avenues, near Laurel Hill in Washington Heights, Manhattan.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1783
eMuseum Object ID: 
3494
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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