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Jeannine Kreinbrink <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>While we are on cemeteries, I am looking for dates/references on a couple
>of specific types of coffin "furniture". We have several bail handles on
>children's graves that have been tentatively dated by a verbal source to
>1850s. Does anyone have any specific dates associated with simple bail
>handles?
Try these:
Kogon, Stephen L.
1995 Analyses of coffin hardware from unmarked burials, former Wesleyan
Mehodist church cemetery, Weston, Ontario. North American Archaeologist
16(2):133-162
McKillop, Heather
1995 Recognizing children's graves in nineteenth century cemeteires:
Excavationsin St. Thomas Anglican churchyard, Belleville, Ontario Canada
Historical Archaelogy 29(2):77-99
Woodley, Philip J.
1992 Stirrup Court cemetery coffin hardware. Ontario Archaeology 53:45-63.
Kris Hirst
Office of the State Archaeologist
The University of Iowa
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