The First Baptist Church of Philadelphia (FBCP) burial ground was excavated in 2017 after being discovered during construction in historic Philadelphia (Leader et al., in press). Burial records indicate its use from ca. 1702–1859. Skeletal remains of approximately 491 individuals, along with associated funerary goods, including coffins and coffin furniture were recovered from the archaeological excavations. Across historical burial grounds, textiles are often infrequent due to a lack of preservation, or are understudied due to the inability to identify the fabrics. These disadvantages highlight the need for the increased sharing of methods for textile identification, and discussion of historical funerary textiles. Like many burial ground sites, a large number of shroud pins was recovered at FBCP yet only a small sample of textile material (n = 12) was preserved. Here we use polarized light microscopy (PLM) to identify textile fibers and weaves, and discuss these using other comparable funerary textile examples.

费城第一浸信会 (FBCP) 墓地于 2017 年在历史悠久的费城 (Leader et al., in press) 施工期间被发现后被挖掘出来。埋葬记录表明它的使用来自大约。1702-1859 年。从考古发掘中发现了大约 491 人的骨骼遗骸以及相关的陪葬品，包括棺材和棺材家具。在整个历史墓地中，由于缺乏保护，纺织品通常很少见，或者由于无法识别面料而未被充分研究。这些缺点凸显了需要更多地共享纺织品识别方法和讨论历史丧葬纺织品。像许多墓地一样，在 FBCP 回收了大量护罩销，但仅保留了少量纺织材料样本 (n = 12)。在这里，我们使用偏振光显微镜 (PLM) 来识别纺织纤维和编织物，并使用其他类似的丧葬纺织品示例讨论这些。