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The location of Gillespie County in Central Texas.

The location of Gillespie County in Central Texas.

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Artifacts analyzed from a mid-19th century site in the Edwards Plateau of central Texas

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... 22 pieces of bottle glass are aqua-colored (n=9, Figure 10a-b), green (n=3, Figure 10c), and dark green (n=4, Figure 10d); three of the aqua-colored glass pieces have melted through exposure to heat. The green and dark green bottle glass are likely from wine bottles and the aqua-colored bottles held food or medicine. ...
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... 22 pieces of bottle glass are aqua-colored (n=9, Figure 10a-b), green (n=3, Figure 10c), and dark green (n=4, Figure 10d); three of the aqua-colored glass pieces have melted through exposure to heat. The green and dark green bottle glass are likely from wine bottles and the aqua-colored bottles held food or medicine. ...
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... 22 pieces of bottle glass are aqua-colored (n=9, Figure 10a-b), green (n=3, Figure 10c), and dark green (n=4, Figure 10d); three of the aqua-colored glass pieces have melted through exposure to heat. The green and dark green bottle glass are likely from wine bottles and the aqua-colored bottles held food or medicine. ...
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... fragments include four heads and partial shanks, nine heads with broken shank tips, two shanks, and one head with a bent shank and broken tip. The complete nails range from 6-9d in size, or between 2-2.75 inches in length (Figure 11). Such nails would have been suitable for building a wooden shingle roof and for light framing tasks within a structure, while the 8-10d nails could have been used for light framing and siding applications on a wood structure along with use on rafters, ceilings, and flooring and to nail wall boards to the framing. ...
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... are four pieces of forged or stamped iron artifacts in the site's artifact assemblage. Three are straps or fasteners (perhaps a hinge for a cabinet) with circular attachments (Figure 12b-d) or bolt heads that range from 3.8-7.7 mm in diameter. These pieces are between 41.8-59.1+ ...
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... in width, and 2.0-4.4 mm in thickness. The other iron artifact is a thin (4.4 mm) and narrow (12.0 mm) iron band (31.8 mm in length) with two attachment holes ( Figure 12a); the holes are 2.1 mm in diameter. The band is open on one side, perhaps for insertion into a wooden artifact. ...

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