The information contained in this booklet is a partial synopsis of archeological reports published by the Institute of Archeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, as Numbers 148 and 174 of the _Research Manuscript Series_. For a detailed treatment of the history and archeology of Middleton Place, and a complete listing of bibliographic sources, the reader is referred to _Middleton Place: initial archeological investigations at an Ashley River rice plantation_ by Kenneth E. Lewis and Donald L. Hardesty (1979), and _The Middleton Place privy: disposal behavior and the archeological record_ by Kenneth E. Lewis and Helen W. Haskell (1981). General reference works on historical archeology and artifacts are listed below. Baron, Stanley 1962 _Brewed in America: a history of beer and ale in the United States._ Little, Brown, & Co., Boston. Cheves, Langdon 1900 Middleton of South Carolina. _South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 1:(3)_: 228-262. Collard, Elizabeth 1967 _Nineteenth century pottery and porcelain in Canada._ McGill University Press, Montreal. Cox, Warren E. 1970 _The book of pottery and porcelain._ Crown Publishers, New York. Daniel, Dorothy 1971 _Cut and engraved glass, 1771-1905._ William Morrow & Co., New York. Douglas, R. W. and S. Frank 1972 _A history of glassmaking._ G. T. Foulis & Co., Henley-on-Thames. Godden, Geoffrey A. 1974 _British pottery: an illustrated guide._ Barrie & Jenkins, London. Huggins, Philip K. 1971 _The South Carolina dispensary._ Sandlapper Press, Columbia. Hughes, G. Bernard 1960 _English and Scottish earthenware 1660-1880._ Abbey Fine Arts, London. Lee, Ruth Webb 1960 _Early American pressed glass._ Northboro, Massachusetts. Lehner, Lois 1980 _Complete book of American kitchen and dinner wares._ Wallace Homestead, Des Moines. McKearin, George P. and Helen McKearin 1966 _American glass._ Crown Publishers, New York. McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson 1978 _American bottles and flasks and their ancestry._ Crown Publishers, New York. Munsey, Cecil 1970 _The illustrated guide to collecting bottles._ Hawthorn Books, New York. Noël Hume, Ivor 1969 _Historical archaeology._ Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1970 _A guide to artifacts of colonial America._ Alfred A. Knopf, New York. Revi, Albert C. 1964 _American pressed glass and figure bottles._ Thomas Nelson & Sons, New York. Russell, Loris 1968 _A heritage of light._ University of Toronto Press, Toronto. Scoville, Warren C. 1948 _Revolution in glassmaking: entrepreneurship and technological change in the American glass industry, 1880-1920._ Harvard University Press, Cambridge.