Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library Research Report Series - 1554
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library
Williamsburg, Virginia
1990
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Figure 1. | Cabinet hardware |
2 | Cabinet hardware |
3 | Cabinet hardware |
4 | Cabinet hardware |
5 | Cabinet hardware |
6 | Plane irons |
7 | Files, rasps, punches |
8 | Chisels and other tools |
9 | Wooden objects |
10 | Military items |
11 | Gun locks |
12 | Buttons |
13 | Buckles |
14 | Buckles |
15 | Beads, "gems", sleeve buttons and knee buckle |
16 | Coins, thimbles, curtain rings, watch parts and other small finds |
17 | Cutlery |
18 | Spoons, scissors, clasp knives and corkscrews |
19 | Delftware |
19a | Delftware |
20 | Delftware |
21 | Dipped and white saltglaze |
22 | White saltglaze |
23 | White saltglaze |
24 | Plain and enamelled white saltglaze |
25 | White saltglaze |
26 | Whieldon-Wedgwood wares |
27 | Plain and painted creamware |
28 | Creamware |
29 | Chinese export and English porcelain |
30 | English porcelain |
31 | Inscribed base of brown stoneware vessel, 1740 |
32 | Yorktown and Nottingham stonewares |
33 | German and English brown stoneware bottles |
34 | German stonewares |
35 | Chamberpots and closestool pan |
36 | West of England earthenware bowl |
37 | Slipwares |
38 | Slipwares |
39 | Slipwares and other earthenwares |
40 | Colono-Indian pottery and lithic point |
41 | Opaque white glass tankard |
42 | Wine glasses and mallet decanter base |
43 | Wine glass stems and other fragments |
44 | Wine glass stems |
45 | Tumbler bases, handles and other fragments |
46 | Pharmaceutical bottles and other fragments |
47 | Stoppers and other glass fragments |
48 | Wine bottle seals |
49 | Wine and other glass bottles |
50 | Bottle and jar fragments |
51 | Bottles, various |
52 | Mirror plate, crown and other glass fragments |
53 | Objects of lead and brass |
54 | Small finds, various |
55 | Copper and brass kettle parts and spiggot |
55a | Orthopaedic corset |
56 | Iron locks and other items from the Hay residence |
57 | Builders' hardware |
58 | Builders' hardware |
59 | Domestic hardware |
60 | Cannon balls and other iron objects |
61 | Brass horse furniture |
62 | Iron horse furniture |
63 | Iron horse furniture |
64 | Agricultural items |
The following captioned photographs represent a selection of the artifacts from the 1959-1960 Anthony Hay site excavations and are intended to illustrate examples in all the basic categories.
Size is indicated either by a graphic scale or by the use of a one-inch squared background.
Excavation Register (E.R.) numbers at the end of each caption indicate the different strata and deposits from which the pieces were obtained. A table of dating for these numbers will be found at the rear of the figures.
This volume is not a complete record of all the artifacts from the site, nor does the caption material claim to include all that can or should be said of each item. It is hoped that when time permits, a full and careful study of the entire artifact collection will be undertaken and a complete report made.
Plane irons of various sizes, the majority probably from trying planes on the evidence of their flat cutting edges; No. 7 probably from a jack plane. It should be noted that none is slotted or mounted with bolts to form half of a "double iron" of the type commonly used today. (Mercer, p. 118).
Part of an oyster shell is still attached to No. 6, while a small brass ring of uncertain purpose has rusted on to the back of No. 9.
No. 1. | E.R.247C |
2. | E.R.209 |
3. | E.R.228 |
4. | E.R.209 |
5. | E.R.231C |
6. | E.R.243M |
7. | E.R.243G |
8. | E.R.231C |
9. | E.R.228 |
10. | E.R.231D |
For the broadest survey of eighteenth century button forms, particularly those of military character, see Calver & Bolton's History Written with Pick & Shovel, 1950, New York Historical Society.
Base of brown stoneware storage jar with ante cocturam inscription reading "Evans [Anno] Domini 1740". There was a brown stoneware potter of this name working outside Bristol at that date. The vessel is of good quality, and the ware is characterized by a fine black fleck in the clay, and which appears in greater concentrations on the base, there having the appearance of graphite. E.R.192A, 194, 230C and 231D.
Left. | Rhenish stoneware "Bellarmine", upper body fragments only, grey bodied saltglaze stoneware, mottled brown on the exterior; well cordoned mouth and the mask of medium quality. c.1660. E.R.206, 230C, D and F, 231C and D, 243K, 247C. |
Right. | Incomplete bottle, English brown stoneware (or possibly Yorktown), the body grey, red surfaced on the interior, the exterior saltglazed and slipped (purplish-brown) on the upper body, grey towards the missing base. The well-formed handle terminates in a thumb-impressed rattail. E.R.192, 198, 230F, 231B and C, 237A, 243H, J, K, L, R and S, 247C, D and G. |
Left. | Chamberpot, Westerwald grey stoneware, flattened and slightly down-sloping rim, ornamental grooves and single band of cobalt below rim and above base, the body decorated with stamped rosettes and sprigged, crowned lions, each device ringed with cobalt; handle reeded and folded at the base. Height, five inches. E.R.207. |
Center. | Close-stool pan (?) with rolled rim and single horizontal handle, coarse red earthenware with lead glaze, the body slightly decorated with scored lines. Height, six and three-quarters inches. E.R.195, 206, 209, 214, 229, 243K and M, 247G. |
Right. | Chamberpot, English white saltglaze, strapped handle and the rim everted and downbent. Height, five and one-quarter inches. E.R.237E. |