Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 249: Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology; Papers 52-54 on Archeology — David Hume — John Shaqi
Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 249: Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology; Papers 52-54 on Archeology
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14. Storage jar or pipkin, pale-pink ware flecked with ocher and
occasional granules of quartz, a clear lead glaze imparts an
orange color to the surface, and is locally streaked with
green. The rim is heart-shaped in section, having a groove
along its upper surface, and the body is extremely finely
potted. There is good reason to suppose that this vessel is of
Virginia manufacture, in which case the 17th-century colony
possessed a potter of greater ability than any of those whose
kilns have yet been found. Another fragment of this pot, or one
identical to it, was found to the southeast of the existing
house. C4, E4, 10, K11.
15. Rim sherd from wide bowl of Colono-Indian[51] pottery,
grey shell-tempered ware with stick-or pebble-burnished
reduced surface, the rim everted and flattened. The ware is
contemporary with the European artifacts from the site and is
the earliest datable fragment yet recovered. A3.
16. Rim sherd from bowl of Colono-Indian pottery, buff
shell-tempered ware with stick-or pebble-burnished oxidized
surface, the rim everted, flattened and very slightly dished.
K11.
17. Wine bottle, olive-green glass in an advanced state of decay,
the neck short and broad and the mouth slightly everted over a
roughly applied string rim, the body squat and slightly broader
at the shoulder than at the base, a domed basal kick and no
obvious pontil scar. This is a composite drawing illustrating
the shape typical of the bottles from the Clay Bank site cellar
hole. The two fragments cannot be proved to be part of the same
bottle. About 1680-1700. Neck A2. Body F3.
18. Wine bottle, half-bottle size, olive-green glass in an advanced
state of decay, the form similar to the above but slightly
weaker in the shoulder. About 1680-1700. C4.
19. Bottle, in form of miniature wine bottle, the glass a pale
green similar to that used in the making of pharmaceutical
phials. (Fig. 9.) About 1680-1720. C4.
20. Base of pharmaceutical bottle, pale-green glass with pronounced
conical kick and rough pontil scar, the metal very thin. The
principal dating characteristics of these bottles are the
shapes of the mouths and the slope of the shoulders; in the
absence of those, no close dating is possible.[52] C4.
21. Ring, iron, round section, considerable evidence of wear at
one point on the inside edge suggesting that this object had
been attached to a link of chain or perhaps has been held by a
staple or eye. Such rings are frequently to be found attached
to stalls in stables. B6A.
22. Race knife, the dashed outline indicating the angle of the
hinged blade in its open position. (See fig. 12, no. 3.) E4.