Broken Pestle.
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1889
name: label: Collector
content: Capt Joseph G. Bruff
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Joseph G. Bruff
notes: label: Notes
content: Old label glued onto celt, presumably by J. G. Bruff, identifies it as"From Tiber Creek, 1870: brought up by the dredging screw, near the Arsenal. ..." See also A141197. Label says: "near the Arsenal". James Calvert. If so must be James Canal and near Buzzard Point.
label: Notes
content: Tiber Creek is a tributary of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It was a free-flowing creek until 1815, when it was channeled to become part of the Washington City Canal. Presently, it flows under the city in tunnels, including under Constitution Avenue NW. Using the original Tiber Creek for commercial purposes was part of Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant's 1791 "Plan of the city intended for the permanent seat of the government of the United States . . ." By 1815 the western portion of the creek became part of the Washington City Canal, running along what is now Constitution Avenue. When Alexander "Boss" Shepherd joined the D.C. Board of Public Works in 1871, he and the Board engaged in a massive series of infrastructure improvements. One of these projects enclosed Tiber Creek and the Washington City Canal. - Wikipedia contributors, "Tiber Creek," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiber_Creek&oldid=999454116 (accessed September 19, 2021). James Creek, in southwest Washington formed just southwest of the Capitol, not far from where the Tiber turned west. The Tiber never joined James Creek naturally, although they flowed closely to each to other. Later theTiber sewer emptied into the James.The channel flowed southward along South Capitol Street and then broadened greatly through a marshy area and flowed into the Anacostia River between Fort McNair and Buzzards Point. Source: p. 6 of Millay, Curtis A. "Restoring the lost rivers of washington: can a city's hydrolic past inform its future?" Master's thesis. Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31770 . Fort Lesley J. McNair is a United States Army post located on the tip of Greenleaf Point, the peninsula that lies at the confluence of the Potomac River and the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. To the peninsula's west is the Washington Channel, while the Anacostia River is on its south side. Originally named Washington Arsenal, the fort has been an army post for more than 200 years. - Wikipedia contributors, "Fort Lesley J. McNair," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fort_Lesley_J._McNair&oldid=1028427376 (accessed September 19, 2021).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Sep 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: District Of Columbia, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 022308
label: USNM Number
content: A141198-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pestle