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Santa Cruz Presidio |
at the Time of Excavation |
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Artifacts and Features of Six Excavation Units
* Photograph on poster
+ Artist's rendering on poster
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Unit One
597 Fairbank Plainware sherds 253 Tanque Verde Red-on-brown sherds + 9 Mimbres Black-on-white sherds fire hearth containing the broken bones of deer, rabbits, and predatory minnows * Glycymeris shell bracelet + mano and metate * stone axe Unit Two 207 Sobaipuri Plainware sherds 173 Whetstone Plainware sherds + 5 Majolica sherds 1 green lead glazeware sherd fragment of charred basket stone pot polisher arrowshaft straightener arrowhead * complete Sobaipuri Plainware pot lead crucifix base bronze shoe buckle Jesuit medallion * 5 hand-wrought iron nails * steel dagger blade fork tine copper mirror back iron hoe * iron belt hook for sword scabbard * iron hand sickle * iron auger for boring wood * three bronze thimbles |
Unit Three 20 human burials * bronze crucifix copper and lead buttons + earring * bronze medallion * bronze hinge Unit Four eyeglasses 6 gilt (thin layer of gold) buttons * silver coin dated 1771 + 2 Chinese porcelain sherds + ceramic candlestick * intact buckles * iron tip of sword scabbard Unit Five 499 Sobaipuri Plainware sherds 12 Whetstone Plainware sherds 37 Majolica sherds * pieces of gunstock applique * 4 broken buckles * star rowel gun parts * broken iron scissors * steel dagger blade bones of domesticated cows, sheep, and pigs Unit Six 24 pits filled with partially burnt human bones, heavy black ash, and occasional animal bones and corn kernels shell bracelet slate beads * arrowhead |