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A composite image of the front and back of the copper alloy shank button, with scale.
Sarsaparilla Patent Medicine Bottle Fragments (Peabody 2018.24.153).
Window glass fragments excavated in Level 1 of unit H964.
Photo of the Manganese-Mottled Sherd
Tin glazed earthenware sherd with hand painted Chinese floral pattern.
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Clear glass bottle fragment

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Transfer printed pearlware like the ceramic depicted gives us a sense of the rapid improvement in technology as well as the effects of the ever-expanding transatlantic trade system of the early 19th century. While earlier techniques like hand…
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This video from Colonial Williamsburg provides a brief description of brick production: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUtEcVxaXXQ

This is a very similar artifact that was excavated in New York. Like the HYAP brick, it…

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Pipe Stem and Bowl Fragments

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The Tin-Glazed Sherds
Joseph Browne, Harvard Class of 1666

These fragments are from two plates that I broke in 1664 during my sophomore year at the College. My friends and I may have had too much rum, and our rowdiness got rather out of hand. We thought it would be…

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This green 18th century pharmaceutical glass is smooth to the touch and has two separate pieces--one being a part of the short neck and the other making up the body of the  bottle.

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