digger dun
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so, they are digging in the basement of a building where I work on the lower east side of Manhattan NY. they are about 13 feet below grade in east river landfill. From the old maps I've looked over I believe the area where the building sits was landfilled between 1780ish to 1830ish. My question goes out as this, from the fragments I have colelcted here from the excavation pile, what would the age of this fill be? more towards the late 1700s, or towards the early 1800s?