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metal button

Imagine who once might have worn this shirt button of brass. Was the person gardening on the site’s periphery or a passerby sometime in the early 1800s? The small button was found between 10 and 20 cm (4 to 8 inches) below surface.

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Maps of Bard 25
the R. Tillotson site

Below is a collection of maps of the R. Tillotson archaeological site at Bard College.

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Bard 25 Sensitivity Map - A shallow depression indicative of a structure's location, and artifacts found in shovel testing, prompt a high sensitivity rating for a small historical site.
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Lloyd's 1864 Map - On this detail from the 1864 Lloyd map of Dutchess County, at the corner of Cruger's Island Road and Annandale Road, a dot indicates a structure of R. Tillotson's.
Bard 25 Project Overview - Plans for six new dormitories place them in a wooded area. Nearby in 2000, archaeologists excavated for a dormitory "village" and found abundant bricks.
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Main Bard 25 Map - A map of shovel tests around an anthropogenic depression (a pit caused by people's actions), which was probably a cellar hole, delimits the scatter of artifacts.
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creamware distribution map Bard 25 Distribution Map (close-up) - The four concentrations of creamware fragments include an area east of the cellar. Here artifacts cluster more than elsewhere on the site. Small peaks in density may indicate single vessels.
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