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15 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read

(1/3) An uncommon find for tin-glaze Tuesday! This beautiful tin glaze rim sherd (likely from a platter) was recovered during the 2011 archaeological excavations at Faneuil Hall. It is French in origin and dates to the mid- to late 18th century.

(2/3) Its decoration style is called Rouen Polychrome, a nod towards the area in France where it is from and the blue and black glazes on its surface. The exterior exhibits brown splotchy lead glaze. The following link shows an example of a Rouen sherd from the Florida museum.

(3/3) floridamuseum.ufl.edu/typeceramics/t… Artifact Provenience: FHU.196 #boston #archaeology #NEHgrant #ceramics

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17 Dec

An important math lesson from your local Boston #archaeology team. Like many of you, we were wondering how many Dunkies medium iced coffees (extra extra) would take to fill in the Mary L. Pierce well in Ronan Park, aka the #DorchesterSinkhole. Well, your wait is over. 1/

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Someone shovel off the @DotSinkhole so they can hear this, this is important. 2/

As every news outlet in the region has reported, the Dorchester Sinkhole in fact a 19th century well built around 1818 or 1872 that was buried under a bunch of fill to make Ronan Park around 1912. Yeah, old news. 3/

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10 Nov

(1/4) It’s called fashion, look it up. These wig curlers were recovered during the 2011 archaeological excavations at Faneuil Hall. They are made of white ball clay, the same material typically used to create many of the clay tobacco pipes found archaeologically.

(2/4) While these wig curlers are fragments, whole ones typically measure about 2 inches in length and were often embossed with maker’s marks at the ends. 18th century wigs went through quite a process to achieve the curly-haired look:

(3/4) they were first picked through to remove any debris or critters from the hair, then the hair was wound around the curlers with strips of paper, and the whole wig was then boiled for several hours. After the hair was dry, the wig was then baked in an oven to set the curls.

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