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Object ID: 48905
Site Name: Maurice Clark
Context Number: 44ST174-02-039
Count: 1
Object Type: wig/hair curler
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Material: ceramic
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Remarks: FF Artifact # 16
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SMALL FINDS RECORD
Small Find ID: 2971
No of Objects: 1
Location: Ferry Farm
Conserved: No
Record Date: 5/1/2003
Recorder: Dodd
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Length: 1.323 inches
Width: 0.772 inches
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Morphology: molded
Category: Grooming
Subcategory: Curler
Country: England
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Mark Text: "W B" with a crown above and a dot below
Fashionability: used from 1750-1800
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Remarks: Durbin (1984:4) dates curlers with a maker's mark to the second half of the eighteenth century. She indicates these are used to curl wig hair permanently. To maintain the curl, she claims paper and pinching irons were used (Durbin 1984:6). Others state
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Context ID: 3777
Site Name: Maurice Clark
Context Number: 44ST174-02-039
Summary: excavation unit FF02, context 39
Short Title: plowzone
Deposit Type: plowzone
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Remarks: uniform plowzone throughout unit gave way to cobble subsoil contained several chimney stones
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Soil Type: DARK BROWN SANDY LOAM WITH MOTTLINGS OF ORANGE
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