Collection Highlights
Twenty-third Street west of Sixth Avenue
Date:
1900
Object Number:
PR.020.FF.2
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Iron plates (2) excavated at a British Revolutionary War camp
Object Number:
INV.6142.32-33
Date:
1760-1783
Medium:
Iron
Dimensions:
largest: 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. ( 8.9 x 6.4 cm )
Description:
Iron plates; rectangular with large, circular keyhole in center.
Gallery Label:
These plates were excavated by Reginald P. Bolton and others before the formation of the Field Exploration Committee at a sanitary camp that extended east of Broadway, between 196th and Ellwood Streets. The camp was built in the summer of 1779 to quarantine British and Hessian soldiers infected with a fever that was sweeping through the military camps in Washington Heights. The plates may have been mounted on gun racks or on supply chests.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Washington Headquarters Association, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1947
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
