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Re: Colonial Burials (shroud pins)
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Steve Boxley <[log in to unmask]>
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HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 16 Dec 1998 07:06:48 -0800
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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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Steve Boxley,  Ja.T., M.N.
The Virginia Foundation for Archaeological Research, Inc.
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