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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_Deposit_ | _I_ | _II_ | _III_
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Pit B (T.N. 30) | 1702-1710 | 1700-1720 | 1709
Pit C (T.N. 17, 18) | ca. 1740 | 1735-1750 | 1745
Pit D (T.N. 23) | 1730-1740 | 1730-1740 | 1739
Stratum (T.N. 1) | ca. 1740 | 1720-1740 | 1724
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The discrepancy in the dating of layer T.N. 1 must be explained by the
fact that the soil and its contents were dug from somewhere else and
redeposited outside the kitchen building. Had this stratum predated
the building, it would undoubtedly have been found on both sides of
the foundation and would not have overlaid the red clay level (T.N. 2)
which was similar and probably identical to that sealing pits C and D,
the latter containing a wine bottle of about 1740 (fig. 19, no. 18).
The following maker's marks were found on pipes:
[Sidenote: R M]
One initial on either side of the heel. Two examples (see fig. 14,
no. 3). The initials are not uncommon on pipes of the same shape
found at Williamsburg and Rosewell Plantation.[118] There were at
least seven pipemakers with these initials working in the late 17th
and early 18th centuries.[119] T.N. 30, Pit B.
[Sidenote: H S]
One initial on either side of the heel. One example (fig. 14, no. 5).
Other pipes with these initials have been found at Williamsburg and
Rosewell Plantation. Maker not known. T.N. 1.
[Sidenote: I S]
One initial on either side of the heel. One example (fig. 14, no. 6).
The mark is not recorded among previous finds from either Jamestown
or Williamsburg. At least five makers with these initials were
working in Bristol in the appropriate period. T.N. 17, Pit C.
[Illustration: FIGURE 13.--1, IRON SAW FRAGMENTS found under the
Tutter's Neck kitchen (T.N. 15); 2-5, iron sickle, padlock, scissors,
and dividers, respectively, from various deposits on the site (see
figs. 15, 16).]
[Sidenote: RICH
ARDS
AYER]
Richard Sayer. Two examples had the name stamped on bases of flat
heels; five others had the stamp on the upper sides of stems (see
fig. 14, no. 1). All seven stamps occur on glazed pipes of good
quality. No previous examples of his pipes have been found at
either Jamestown or Williamsburg. Possibly Richard Sayers who is
recorded by Oswald as having been working at Newbury in about 1700.
T.N. 30, Pit B.
[Sidenote: ...IP
...ET]
This fragmentary stamp on a molded cartouche on the side of a bowl
came from a context of about 1730-1740 (T.N. 2) and was presumably
made by the Robert Tippet of Bristol who became a freeman in 1713
and whose pipes have been found in Williamsburg contexts dating as
late as the mid-18th century.[120]
[Sidenote: RICH
TYLER]