I discovered the cache of a man’s items in the cavity to the right of the woman’s objects. The immured talismans were individual acts performed in unison, offering us an intimate portrait of a couple bound by superstition, a promissory note against wraiths in the form of their earthly possessions: the man chose a steel butter knife, the handle half wood on one side, bone on the other embossed Sylvester & Co Sheffield; a worn, black wool-lined leather boot, the cut collar of a white dress shirt stamped 15½, a child’s brown leather boot, a seashell and a net mending tool. Our most recent finding, consisting of a child’s boot with a separated sole and a piece of rope, was found between posts on the staircase to the second floor.
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6 on site review 45: houses + housing
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