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Image Not Available for Sample destroyed in 1941 from "Box of charred grass matting"
Sample destroyed in 1941 from "Box of charred grass matting"
Image Not Available for Sample destroyed in 1941 from "Box of charred grass matting"
Object Number 84-6-10/34983.1
Display Title Sample destroyed in 1941 from "Box of charred grass matting"
Descriptions
Object Description Charcoal, made up principally of a layer of grass matting.
Inventory Description Organic, charocal fragments
Classification
  • Organic
Department Archaeological
Date 120 AD - 340 AD
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Ohio / Ross County / <City> / Liberty Earthworks; Ohio State Site # 33RO22
Intrasite Edwin Harness Mound; charcoal layer on burnt clay, 1 foot above bottom of mound
Additional Geographic Terms Liberty Township; Scioto River, 3 km east of, on second terrace
Materials Charcoal
Quantity 1 bag
Provenance
Collector Prof. Frederic Ward Putnam (9/25/1884-10/12/1884)
Collector Dr. Charles L. Metz (9/25/1884-10/12/1884)
Expedition Peabody Museum Expedition (11/01/1884)

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