Ivor Noel Hume 



Excavations at 



TUTTER'S NECK 



in James City County, Virginia, 1960-1961 



Land clearance for reforestation of property leased from Williams- 

 burg Restoration, Inc., resulted in the exposure of numerous frag- 

 ments of early 18th-century pottery and glass. Partial excavation of 

 the site, \nown as Tutter's Necl{, revealed foundations of a small 

 colonial dwelling and outbuilding, both of which had ceased to exist 

 by about 1750. 



This paper describes and analyzes the artifacts recovered from 

 refuse pits on the site. These artifacts, which have been given to 

 the Smithsonian Institution, are closely dated by context and are 

 valuable in the general study of domestic life in early 18th-century 

 Virginia. 



The Author: Ivor Noel Hume is director of the department of 

 archeology at Colonial Williamsburg and an honorary research 

 associate of the Smithsonian Institution. 



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n the summer of 1959 the Chesapeake Corporation colonial residence wen- bull 



undertook land-clearance operations prior to destroyed. In the spring of I960, Mr. Alden Eaton, 



reforestation on property leased from Williamsburg director of landscape cons 



Restoration, Inc., lying to the east of College Creek, for Colonial Williamsburg, while walking over the 



which runs into the fames River below Jamestown razed area, picked up numerous fragments ol early 



Island (see fig. 2). In the course of this work the 18th-century pottery and glass which he later brought 



foundations of a small and hitherto unrecorded to the writer for identification. As the result of this 



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