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Photograph of an excavation unit measuring 1 x 2 meters. Archaeological tools are around the unit, including an orange paint bucket, a shovel handle, a dust broom, a tape measure. A partially-redacted signboard sits above the unit that reads “Test Unit 1, Context 2, level 1 at 70 cmbd, 211 June 20, UNO/CNO.” A black and white north arrow with a ten-centimeter scale is in the middle of the unit. Four sets of work boots are in the background.
Base of the second shell layer (Context 2) at Killdeer Street

Four pieces of cut woods in a sifting screen made of wood and ¼” mesh. A pink length of flagging tape reads, “Shell Midden Fill, Context 1” with the date, “6/24/20.<br /> <br />
Metal fill excavated in the upper Rangia shell layer

Colorless mug with words “SPANISH FORT RESORT” displayed on black velvet with a fifteen-centimeter scale bar.
Mug embossed 'Spanish Fort'

Corroded cupreous metal medallion on displayed on black velvet with a five-centimeter scale bar.
Rex 'Souvenir of the Mardi Gras' Medallion, 1892

A modern map showing 81 neighborhoods of New Orleans, major roads, and major waterways. All neighborhoods are in green, except for the neighborhoods Lakeview, Lake Vista, and Lake Terrace and Oaks, as well as the Lakefront Airport, which are the color of water and outlined with dashes.
Map showing the inclusion of Lake Vista, Lakeview, Lakefront Airport, and Lake Terrace and Oaks

Six early-twentieth century pale blue-green bottles and bottle fragments displayed on black velvet with a fifteen-centimter scale bar
Series of late-nineteenth, early-twentieth century bottles from Killdeer locus farther away from Spanish Fort

Three bottles displayed on black velvet with a fifteen-centimeter scale bar. From left to right, the first is a cylindrical jar, and reads, “HORLICK MALT CO. MILK.” The second is a colorless flask, the third is a colorless rectangular bottle.
Early-Twentieth century machine-made bottles from a Killdeer locus farther away from Spanish Fort

Photograph of an archaeologist digging with a shovel in a trench along a road in an urban, residential neighborhood with a red mechanical excavator in the background. The trench is lined with yellow caution tape and orange and white safety cones.
Excavation of a waterline trench located shell midden, the kind that might be related to a shell mound or Indigenous feature.

Photograph shows two coconut shell and three seeds/ pits displayed on black velvet with a ten-centimeter scale bar.
Coconut shell and seeds

Eroded silver coin. The word "QUE" is legible, barely legible below is the picture of a crown on top of a shield flanked with pillars, displayed on black velvet with a ten-centimeter scale bar.
Coin is dated 1788-1808. Front: Bust of Charles IV; back: bourbon shield flanked with pillars.
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