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Object ID: 54070
Site Name: Maurice Clark
Context Number: 44ST174-04-037
Count: 1
Object Type: wig/hair curler
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Material: ceramic
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Remarks: FF Artifact # 39
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SMALL FINDS RECORD
Small Find ID: 3058
No of Objects: 1
Location: Ferry Farm
Conserved: No
Record Date: 2/23/2004
Recorder: Dodd
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Length: 1.446 inches
Width: 0.440 inches
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Morphology: molded
Category: Grooming
Subcategory: Curler
Country: London, England
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Marks: lettering/numbers
Mark Text: "W B" with a crown above and a dot below
Fashionability: c. 1740-1800 (Le Cheminant 1982:190)
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Remarks: makers mark is stamped on end of curler. Makers marks appear on curlers from 1740 to about 1800. 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.
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Verified By: Galke
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Context ID: 3867
Site Name: Maurice Clark
Context Number: 44ST174-04-037
Summary: excavation unit FF04, context 37
Short Title: plowzone
Deposit Type: plowzone
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Grid North Coord: 755
Grid East Coord: 425
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Screen Type: 1/4 inch
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Remarks: Single large stone removed measuring: length 0.6 ft, width 0.65 ft, thickness 0.30 ft. Concentration of rounded quartz pebbles in middle of S. end of unit - possibly the gravel layer level seen in other units.
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Supervisors Notes: No feature exposed. Gravel appears fairly shallow, especially in the southern half of unit.
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Soil Type: 10 YR 4/4 dark yellowish brown sandy silt
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Z Coord: 102.53
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