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Limestone marble.

Limestone | Object #: 1839758

The object pictured here is a simple toy marble. It is made of limestone and polished smooth. While it is always difficult to associate an archaeological item with a singular person, it is possible a toy such as this would have been used if not owned by one of the many enslaved children living ...

Limestone marble.

Limestone | Object #: 1839759

The object pictured here is a simple toy marble. It is made of limestone and polished smooth. While it is always difficult to associate an archaeological item with a singular person, it is possible a toy such as this would have been used if not owned by one of the many enslaved children living ...

Limestone marble fragment.

Limestone | Object #: 1839762

Extremely degraded. Does not appear to belong to marble frag 1839784 because to put them together would create an egg-shaped marble.

Limestone marble.

Limestone | Object #: 1839776

The object pictured here is a simple toy marble. It is made of limestone and polished smooth. While it is always difficult to associate an archaeological item with a singular person, it is possible a toy such as this would have been used if not owned by one of the many enslaved children living ...

3/4 of a limestone marble.

Limestone | Object #: 1839784

Does not appear to belong to marble fragment 1839762 because to put them together would create an egg-shaped marble. Breaks apart easily

Blonde shatter from gunflint.

Chert/Flint, Honey-Brown | Object #: 1839790

Blonde shatter is byproduct of making gunflint.

Quartered white metal coin.

Metal, white | Object #: 1840827

Worn white metal (silver?) coin that has been quartered. Crude and uneven- perhaps a cob coin. Later cob coins cruder- http://www.sedwickcoins.com/articles/colonialcoinage.htm

Tobacco pipe bowl and rim with unid. molded design on bowl.

Earthenware, ball clay | Object #: 1840846

Design is a dot.

Dark green wine bottle conical base.

Non-Lead | Object #: 1840855

This fragment is the base from a wine bottle made of dark green glass. Illustrated in this fragment is the “kick” or “push-up,” the inward curving dome at the bottom of the bottle. Wine bottles such as this were primarily imported from Britain and Europe in the eighteenth century, and were ...

Dark green wine bottle domed base.

Non-Lead | Object #: 1840876

This fragment is the base from a wine bottle made of dark green glass. Illustrated in this fragment is the “kick” or “push-up,” the inward curving dome at the bottom of the bottle. Wine bottles such as this were primarily imported from Britain and Europe in the eighteenth century, and were ...

Plain weave bast-fiber textile fragment.

Fiber, bast | Object #: 1841151

Once adhered to silver spanish coin 1840590. Came off post-conservation. Reverse of coin date (25) and quatrefoil impressed into textile. Partial pseudomorph, part organic. Bast (vegetal) fiber. Likely linen. Could be hemp. Plain (tabby) weave. Threads appear to be Z-spun.

Bone fan guard with incised linear decoration.

Bone | Object #: 1842496

Both ends broken. Piece was closer to the rivet and is thinning out toward the top.

Bone brush back with central threaded hole.

Bone | Object #: 1845545

Possibly a crumb brush or clothing brush. Row of 6 holes along shorter sides. Row of 13 holes along edge of two longer sides. 2 central rows consist of 4 holes each. Central hole is the largest and is threaded where handle would have screwed in. Tiny hole above central hole. Some holes retain C...

Coiled copper alloy jewelry wire with suspension loop at each end.

Copper Alloy | Object #: 1849239

One suspension loop incomplete. Identical to 16th/17th century coiled wire illustrated in "Chatelaines: Utility to Glorious Extravagance" on page 28.

Hoe

Iron | Object #: 2521374

Pot Hook

Iron | Object #: 2521388

Chest/Furniture Lock Plate

Copper Alloy | Object #: 2521402

Carriage Bolt

Iron | Object #: 2521408

Iron Rim Lock

Iron | Object #: 2521440

This is a partially complete iron rim lock. From the 17th through the 19th centuries, rim locks were the most common form of door lock. They varied in size and complexity and were primarily produced in England until the 19th century. Unlike mortise locks where the locking mechanism is inserted ...

Felling Axe

Iron | Object #: 2521453