Considering that the bend of the creek's main flow today touches the southern edge of Tutter's Neck, it is likely that a boat landing existed there in the 1700s. Papers of the Jones Family of Northumberland County, Virginia MSS. Division, Library of Congress), vol.
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The only datable artifact found in the area was the base of a wine bottle from the former. Close to the southern end of the eastern windbreak, a waste pit (Pit A) was found containing >. No explanation was given for the presence of the stone bats and no further stone deposits were found in the area.
It has been suspected that the building may have had a porch room extending to the west, but no western projecting foundations butted against the stepped ends of the west wall. The Tutter's Neck residence differed from most Williamsburg homes in that it had no basement. The presence of the wells scaled under the kitchen provided two pieces of information: that the site.
The construction date of the kitchen in the decade 1731-1740 would place it in the ownership of Kol.
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EXCAVATIONS AT TUTTER's NECK
Below this layer was the main fill of the pit, consisting of a thick layer of wood (T.N. 17) which melted towards the corners of the pit into pale clay (T.N. 18) that was probably painted on the sides. The ash deposit yielded part of a sickle, the bowl of a badly damaged pewter spoon, frequently turned bone objects, tobacco pipes, and a silver-bronze armor ornament. Surprisingly, thestratum also contained part of a plate comparable to the delftware charger from.
The silty clay at the bottom of the pit included numerous fragments of clay pipes, the stem holes of which, according to Harrington's theory, indicated a date of about 1735-1750.
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The primary ash deposit, which proved to be the richest at the site, included Delft medicine jar fragments, porringers and bowls, Westerwald crucible sherds. Fragments of tobacco pipes indicated a date in the third decade of the 18th century, as did a single wine bottle found at the bottom of the pit. Of note was a fragment of Colono-Indian pottery adjoining a bowl found in Pit D, indicating that both deposits were of the same type.
OTHER DEPOSITS YIELDING ARTIFACTS ILLUSTRATED
Unlike the other pits in this series, the contents consisted of a single deposit of brown soil (T.N. 24) containing brickbats, oyster shells, and a small amount of pottery, notably the base of a decorative Delft cup and a large portion of Yorktown ware. . This was an oval pit located 2 feet north of Pit C. As it was only partially within the excavation area and due to its close proximity to the poorly preserved northern foundation of the kitchen, this site was only partially excavated, ie. area 4 feet. 2 inches by 3 feet 9 inches. From this fill came several pieces of Colono-Indian polychrome Delftware, Yorktown Earthenv. of porcelain, part of a heavy wine glass knob and a minute fragment of white salt glaze on which the final dating of the cave is based.
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They consist of the fill of the construction trench at the rear against the western foundation of the house (see p. 44).. mixed with mortar and plaster representing the destruction layer of the house. The bulldozing had caused significant disruption in both layers. bu1 ..it can be safely assumed that the delft sherd belonged to the construction date of the house and that a lead glass tumbler base and an iron padlock fragment came from the destruction layer. The construction date of the house depends. on the insufficient evidence of the single shard of Delft pottery mentioned above, i.e. after about 1680.
That . destruction dating does not derive from the objects mentioned here, but from the bottleneck discussed under T.N. . and on proof of unstr; .. found in the occupation area, it is .. the complex had been abandoned in the middle of the 18th century. Such bones are abundant in the Tidewater marl beds and are often found on the banks of the James and York rivers. The datable bowls and fragments of pipes closely followed the two periods of the site, as indicated by the various waste pits; that is, examples from pits A and B date from around and those from the rest of the pits are of types loosely attributed to the period.
From the evidence of the connection and from the use of the Harrington system of stem-holc dating, there is no reason to date any of the pipes later than the first half of the 18th century.
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METAL OBJECTS
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The surprising predominance of late 17th-century objects in this and other contexts supports the theory that the house served as a quarter against.
CERAMICS
EXCAVATIONS AT TUTTER''s NECK
GLASS BOTTLES
EXCAVATIONS AT TUTTEr's NECK
- Tube of sheet iron. Wider at one end than the
On the back is the Arabic numeral 2, indicated by a multitude of small inscribed arcs, large enough to use the entire surface of the terminal. Bowl and broken spoon handle with rat tail, the rat tail being unusually long and thin after tapering sharply at the heel of the bowl. The handle is narrow and oval in cross-section and would very likely end up in the end piece.
The handle shape is characteristic of the 17th century.'8 The spoon is in an advanced stage of decay, but appears. It appears as if the key had been forcibly turned into a lock, resulting in the breaking of the web and the twisting and breaking of the loop. The keyhole cover is now missing but originally it was hinged, and did not turn as was common on locks since the second half of the 18th century.84 The bolt, which survives, was fitted.
The terminal, disc-shaped, serves to hold the handle at right angles to the wood of the chest.
BONE, AND GLASS
Flat iron is folded over at one edge to grasp an iron band, niiK of which a small portion survives. Hatches on either side serve .are rivets passing through iron struts extending back from the front plate. Two wards extending from the shaft show that, to lock, the bolt moved from right to left.
Frame and tang apparently square in diameter, the former perhaps inadvertently narrowed at one end. The tape is bent in opposite directions on either side, the bend on the right passing through the line of the nail holes, indicating that the bend occurred when. Originally silvered or tinned, of shell form; five knobs projecting from behind—four in the area of the shell and one.
Pale straw-colored metal; 94 the stem of the inverted baluster is hollow and soft-tooled in the form of a quatrefoil at its junction with the bowl,95 the latter being placed firmly on the upper part of the stem.
ENGLISH DELFTWARE
The latter ends on the outside in a collar above six surrounding grooves, including the tube. Sparkling lead metal; the stem consists of a solid, inverted baluster under a solid cushion knob, the base of the socket being firmly seated in the latter. In the 18th century, pots of this diameter were usually larger, less spread at the base, .mil with the blue decoration much darker.
1 Waste products from London's delftware kilns were used to build up the northern foreshore of the River Thames. The mannei in which the edges are folded over the handle seems to be characteristic of London, Bristol examples are more often fastened straight to the edge. This extremely unusual item was, by a remarkable coincidence, accompanied by an identical fragment found by the writer on the foreshore of the Rixer Thames at Queenhithe in London.
Another somewhat unusual feature is that the back of the vessel is covered with tin; most such dishes were coated on the back with a thin yellow or yellow-green lead glaze.
Slightly exfoliated rim and handle with heart-shaped opening: body slightly bulbous and curving to a straight foot; the gloss thick and gray. Base conical within; gloss thick and very white; bowl decorated internally with profile portrait of a cavalier. The edge turns gently downwards past the wide marl, and the foot is squat and.
Such dishes are often decorated with blue stripes on the edges, which give them the name "blue stripe chargers", I03 but there. Such dishes are often used as wall or dresser decorations and not for table use; consequently the foot rings are generally pierced for suspension. Dowman, Blue Dash Chargers and other Early English Tin Enamel Circular Diihes (London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1919).
At least two concentric circles decorated the slab floor, but no evidence of the central design survives.
INDIAN POTTERY
BROWN SALT-GLAZED STONEWARES
The neck adorned with several grooves; handle the terminal pressed into the body with a finger; the glaze a rich purplish brown, reddish brown within."- A common form of manu-.
GERMAN SALT-GLAZED STONEWARE
COARSE EARTHENWARES
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Somewhat bulbous and shoulders weak, cord wide and straight.119 A slightly older form than no. The body is round-shouldered and bulbous in an early manner: the neck is tall and the rim of the cord is almost round, rather than V-shaped as you might expect from a bottle of this basic shape. If it weren't for the soft curve of the body and the shape of the corded rim, this bottle could be attributed to the third decade of the 18th century.
16; shoulder angular; neck somewhat wrapped with a broad and flat tourniquet of 17th-century character. Hollow mould; both back and front convex; the back with two casting holes on either side of the flat-split copper loop, spreading directly from the back without any intermediate\. Such knots were common in the second half of the 17th century and the first quarter of the 18th century. 11'2 Diameter, % in.
Although many beads have been found in the James River slums near Jamestown, there is reason to believe that all of the beads were of European form and imported.
