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Daniel H. Weiskotten wrote:
>
> Have no data of myne own regarding shroud pins in burials, but I am
> wondering what, besides that it was found in a burial context,
> differentiates a shroud pin from a pin for other purposes.  I've seen pins
> of the 18th and 19th centuries binding cloth, manuscripts, plant specimens,
> ... even excavated a bunch of them on the 18th century contexts at Belair
> Mansion in Bowie MD (JGG do you recall these?) and have seen them in other
> assemblages of many periods.
>
> Dan W.
 
Placement.
 
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