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The Archaeology of Pins
By Eleanor Breen / Project Manager, Archaeological Collections Online If you excavate a domestic feature on a historic site and use waterscreening and floatation to recover small finds, you are likely to find plenty of straight pins. This is especially true … Continue reading
Pinning it down
By Eleanor Breen / Project Manager, Archaeological Collections Online Our research strategy for studying artifacts from the South Grove Midden usually follows a consistent pattern. We begin by cataloguing the artifacts into our database and do some initial research using secondary … Continue reading
Understanding Umbrellas – Some Context for the Umbrella Tip Artifact
By Eleanor Breen / Project Manager, Archaeological Collections Online It’s amazing how much can be said about a single artifact! In two earlier blog posts, we discussed the disputed identification of the mystery artifact and how we came to the conclusion … Continue reading
Putting a Pin in it!
By Eleanor Breen / Project Manager, Archaeological Collections Online Following along from our blog from last week – from pin holders to the actual pins themselves… Would you believe that from 1760 through the beginning of the Revolutionary War, George … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, History
Tagged corking pins, George Washington, large whites, middling, minikin, orders and invoices, sewing, short whites, straight pins
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Fanning the Flames of Fashion
By Eleanor Breen / Project Manager, Archaeological Collections Online On August 6th, 1768, George Washington recorded the weather of that day: “Exceeding hot – & still till the Evening.” Sound familiar? Whether you visited Mount Vernon today or in the … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Artifacts
Tagged artifacts, bone, fan blade, fashion, Martha Washington, orders and invoices
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Thunder Bowls and Piss Pots
Abby Cliff/Graduate Student/SUNY Binghamton It is a truth universally acknowledged that in polite conversation, whether in the eighteenth century or the twenty first, one does not talk much about chamber pots, privies, or any related topic. Chamber pots were an … Continue reading
“I should be glad to have a label…”: George Washington’s Trunk Plate
By Laura Tancredi / Archaeology Laboratory Manager One of the most exciting finds from the South Grove Midden was a small brass trunk plate inscribed “Genl Washington”. Personally-attributable artifacts are hard to come by in archaeology, so this trunk plate … Continue reading
Archaeologists and Their Fascination with Beads
By Eleanor Breen / Project Manager, Archaeological Collections Online Beads are one of the more fascinating artifact types that historical archaeologists find, catalogue, analyze, and interpret. They’re tiny, shiny, colorful artifacts worn on jewelry, around necks or dangling from ears, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1/16", African Americans, artifacts, beads, emic, etic, jewelry, orders and invoices, personal adornment, slaves, typology
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The Long and the Short of It (Tobacco Pipes, That Is)
Katie Barca / M.A. Anthropology / George Washington University About this time last June, I was working on my first blog about the tobacco pipes from the Midden. I had only been studying the tobacco pipes for a few months … Continue reading
Of “midlg size & not Deep:” Milk Pans for the Every Man
By Eleanor Breen / Project Manager, Archaeological Collections Online While the 22 milk pans from the South Grove excavation provide important tangible details about the material and sizes, they are only a small fraction of George Washington’s milk pans. The invoices … Continue reading
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Tagged artifacts, capacity, Colchester, dairy, George Washington, Henderson, milk pans, orders and invoices
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