Figure ii. — Interior bases of delftware salts with identical Caiulian 

 profiles. Left, from 1 nun'-, Neck, Pit I); right, from the Thames at London. 

 Diameter of each base is i ,! j in. 



Dating: Same as T.N. 2, about 173(1-1740. 



Deposit T.N. 4. — A stratum of black soil overlving 

 the red clay outside the southwest corner of the kitchen 

 foundation. Finds include wine-bottle fragments 

 dating about 1690-1710, brown stoneware, Yorktown 

 coarse earthenware, and English delftware sherds. 



Dating: After kitchen construction, probably in the 

 same decade, about 1730-1740. 



Deposit T.N. 10. — Black humus mixed with plaster 

 and brickbats outside the west wall of the residence's 

 north chimney. The only find of importance is a 

 well-preserved, two-tined, iron table fork. 



Dating: The stratum represents the destruction 

 level of the residence, and the scant dating evidence 

 recovered from T.N. 18, etc.. suggests that the building 

 had ceased to exist by 1750, or possibly a few years 

 earlier. 



Deposit T.N. 27. — The field number covers two 

 deposits that blended together in their upper levels. 

 They comprise the back filling of the builder's trench 

 against the residence's west foundation (see p. 44) — 

 from which came a single delftware charger sherd of 

 about 1680-1700 — and a stratum of black humus 

 mixed with mortar and plaster representing the 

 destruction layer of the house. The bulldozing had 

 caused considerable disturbance to both layers. bu1 



it can be safely accepted that the delft sherd belonged 

 to the construction date of the residence and that a 

 lead-glass tumbler base and an iron-padlock fragment 

 came from the destruction stratum. 



Dating: The construction date for the house relies 

 on the insufficient evidence of the single delftware 

 sherd mentioned above, i.e., after about 1680. The 

 destruction dating comes not from the items noted 

 here but from the bottle neck discussed under T.N. 

 28, after about 1740. 



Deposit T.N. 28. — A test cutting inside the residence 

 on the line of the supposed central hallway that 

 revealed 9 inches of humus mixed with mortar 

 plaster resting on natural clay. From the ab 

 level came one bottle neck of 

 evidence and on the evidence of unstr; 

 found in the occupation area, it is the 



complex had been abandoned by the middle of the 

 18th century. 



Dating: After about 1 



\nimal Remains 



Animal bo marine items wen- largel) 



lined to the refuse piti sed, although 



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