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_Recent excavations of ceramics at historic sites such as Jamestown and Plymouth indicate that the seaboard colonists of the 17th century enjoyed a higher degree of comfort and more esthetic furnishings than heretofore believed. In addition, these findings have given us much n...
Since 1954 Robert A. Elder, Jr., assistant curator of ethnology at the United States National Museum, has been investigating the site on the Chesapeake Bay of a plantation or sm...
2. Part 2Besides Ireland, Bristol and Exeter were destinations in a busy coastwise trade. In 1681, for example, large quantities of earthenware, tobacco pipes, and pipe clay were sent to...
4. Part 4Cooking pot covers: Diameters 7", 10", 10-1/2", 11". Flat covers, with downward-turned rims. Off-center loop handles, probably designed to facilitate examination of contents of...
1. Part 1_Recent excavations of ceramics at historic sites such as Jamestown and Plymouth indicate that the seaboard colonists of the 17th century enjoyed a higher degree of comfort and...
5. Part 5[48] Cloume = cloam: "In O. E. Mud, clay. Hence, in mod. dial. use: Earthenware, clay ... b. _attr._ or _adj._" (J. A. H. Murray, ed., _A New English Dictionary on Historic Prin...