This shell was found at Old Slip and Front Streets in lower Manhattan.

This cannonball was found in 1921 during a subway excavation at Broad and Front Streets in lower Manhattan. The arrow stamped on the cannonball indicates British government ownership.

This cannonball was found in 1918 during excavations for the foundation of a new hospital building on the reservation of the U.S. Naval Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. The cannonball may have been fired by British or Continental artillery forces during the Battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776.

According to its accession sheet, this section of chain was part of a mooring chain used by British prison ships anchored in New York Harbor during the Revolutionary War.

This cannonball was excavated by the Field Exploration Committee near Redoubt No. 1 at West Point. Built in 1778 by the Continental Army, West Point was a network of forts and barracks on the western side of the Hudson River in Orange County, New York.

This brick was found at Fraunces Tavern, a Colonial tavern on Pearl and Whitehall Streets in lower Manhattan. General George Washington gave a farewell address to his officers in the Long Room of the tavern at the end of the Revolutionary War.

This saucer was excavated by Reginald P. Bolton and others at a military camp on the Dyckman farm, at 204th Street between Seaman and Payson Avenues 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. The saucer was owned by a soldier, by a member of a soldier's family, or by a camp follower.

This platter was excavated by Reginald P. Bolton and others at the Colonial Nagel house.

This pitcher was excavated by Reginald P. Bolton and others at a military camp on the Dyckman farm, at 204th Street between Seaman and Payson Avenues 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. The tea bowl may have been owned by a soldier, a member of a soldier's family, or a camp follower.

This plate was found by Reginald P. Bolton and others at the Colonial house of Jonas Bronck, at Lincoln Avenue and 132nd Street in the Bronx, New York City. Built in 1639, the house was the first European settlement in what became the Bronx, and in 1642 was the site of a peace conference between warring Dutch settlers and Weckquasgeek Indians.