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Object ID: 53408
Site Name: Maurice Clark
Context Number: 44ST174-04-247
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Object Type: button
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Material Subtype: copper alloy
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Remarks: FF Artifact # 5
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SMALL FINDS RECORD
Small Find ID: 3319
No of Objects: 1
Location: Ferry Farm
Conserved: Yes
Record Date: 8/25/2004
Recorder: Dodd
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Diameter: 15.9 mm
Morphology: cast
Category: Clothing
Subcategory: Button
Country: England
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Mark Text: P. ET PRINCESS
Fashionability: c. 1677 and March of 1689
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Remarks: has a drilled eye. Prince William and Princess Mary were married in 1677, they became King and Queen in March of 1689. Button would have been popular between 1677 and March of 1689. At the time of their marriage, Mary was the Princess Royal (only one o
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Context ID: 4043
Site Name: Maurice Clark
Context Number: 44ST174-04-247
Summary: excavation unit FF04, context 247
Short Title: cellar
Deposit Type: feature
Deposit SubType: cellar
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Remarks: Context not an eroded fill layer as previously thought. Artifacts and silty layer suggest that context was purposly deposited. Artifacts included straight pins, large ceramic pieces (stonewear mug), pieces of wine bottle glass & nails. See field notes.
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Supervisors Notes: Context gave way to a sandy, clayey fill of gravel and water-worn cobbles in most of the cellar, except along the SW corrner of the pedistal wall where #00247 gives way to a silty context that seems to run underneath the gravel erosion fill. Excavation o
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Soil Type: 10 yr 4/8 yellowish brown sandy silt w/ clay pocke
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