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DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristina E McDonough.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In March 2022, the collapse of a dilapidated, early 20th-century blacksmith shop on my family’s sheep ranch in Montour Valley, Idaho prompted a short archaeological salvage project. The project recovered approximately 6,200 items, most of which were metal and associated with various aspects of farm life. Through investigation of...