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Using Metallurgical Analysis Of Funerary Hardware To Inform On Production Techniques (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Investigating Cultural Aspects of Historic Mortuary Archaeology: Perspectives from Europe and North America", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 2017 excavation of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia’s burial ground (1702-1859) recovered handles and funerary artifacts from just under 500 burials. Funerary hardware recovered matches at least seven types of coffin handle grip plate from the Tuesly and...