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Object ID: 52740
Site Name: Maurice Clark
Context Number: 44ST174-04-194
Count: 1
Object Type: buckle
Object SubType: clothing
Material: metal
Material Subtype: lead alloy
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Remarks: FF Artifact # 5
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SMALL FINDS RECORD
Small Find ID: 3282
No of Objects: 1
Location: Ferry Farm
Conserved: Yes
Record Date: 5/1/2009
Recorder: Galke
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Length: 1 3/4 inches
Width: 3/4 inches
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Morphology: cast
Category: Clothing
Subcategory: Buckle
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Fashionability: c. 1650-1700 (Whitehead 1996:81-82)
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Remarks: likely a spur buckle (Whitehead 2003:81). Spur buckles were used by men (White 2009:252).
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Verified: 10/5/2012
Verified By: Galke
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Buckle Type: spur
Dimensions: 1.75 inches x 0.75 inches
Shape: trapezoid
Technology: cast
Frame Type: double
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Pin Terminal: Type 4
Pin Orientation: long axis
Pin Center Measurement: 0.79 inches
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Context ID: 4007
Site Name: Maurice Clark
Context Number: 44ST174-04-194
Summary: excavation unit FF04, context 194
Short Title: root cellar
Deposit Type: feature
Deposit SubType: root cellar
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Grid North Coord: 780
Grid East Coord: 415
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Screen Type: 1/4 inch
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Remarks: North bisecct: This context had a lot of charcoal flecks and a few brick flecks. Sitting on top of the excavation layer were a few golfball sized chinks of brick. About .9' down from top layer were a few patches of …. See notebook
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Supervisors Notes: Primary fill layer of temporly the first root cellar of staructure A. This layer characterized by multiple soils w/ brick & clay motteling /inclusions. Cellar abisected E/W wiath north sectionr emoved first. All fill water screened. See profile & plan map
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Plan Shape: "L"-shaped in plan
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Soil Type: 10YR 3/4 dark yellowish brown clayey silty mix mot
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Context Width: 6
Context Width: 4
Context Depth: 0
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Z Coord: 101.77
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