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Parasite Analysis of Samples from the Trenton ECC Site in Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey (2008)
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Four soil samples from privy and well contexts at an eighteenth and nineteenth-century historic period site in Trenton, New Jersey, were submitted to the Fiske Center for parasitological analysis. Both whipworm (Tricuris sp.) and roundworm (Ascaris sp.) were identified in the samples, with the highest concentration present in Feature 3, an unlined privy dating to the eighteenth century.