Figure 13. — 1, Iron saw i ragments found under the Tuner's Neck kitchen (T.N. 15); 2-5, iron 

 sickle padlock, scissors, and dividers, respectively, from various deposits on the site (see 

 figs. 15, 1 to. 



makers with these initials were working in 



Bristol in the appropriate period. 1 .X. 17, 



Pii C. 



RICH Richard Sayer, Two examples had the name 



VRDS stamped on bases oi Hat heels; five others had 



AYER the stamp mi the upper sides of stems (see fig. 



14. no. 1). All seven stamps occur on glazed 



pipes of good quality. No previous examples of 



his pipes have been found at either Jamestown 



or Williamsburg. Possibly Richard Sayers who 



is recorded by Oswald as having been working 



at Newbury in about [700. T.N. 30, Pit B. 



. IP This fragmentary stamp mi a molded cartouche 



. . . ET on the side of a bowl came from a context of 



about 1730 1740 1 I \ 2) and was presumably 



made l>\ ih<- Robert Tippet of Bristol who 



became a freeman in 1713 and whose pipes 



have been found in Williamsburg contexts 



as late as the mid-i8th century. 1 ' 



RICH 

 TYLER 



W 



Presumably Richard Tyler, but the last two 

 letters of the surname are unclear. The stamp 

 appears on a stem fragment within an oval of 

 impressed square dots. Oswald lists a Richard 

 Tyker who was working at Bath in about 1700. 

 Stem-hole diameter. % t in. L'nstratified. 



Fragment from base of bowl of pipe with neither 

 heel nor spur, probably similar in shape to 

 no. 4 of figure 14. The first of a pair of initials 

 molded on either side of the base.' ,s Stem-hole 

 diameter, Yu in. L'nstratified. 



METAL OBJECTS 



Metal items (figs. 15-17) from the site provide a 

 valuable series of common domestic and agricultural 

 objects of a period that has as yet received little stucU . 

 The majority of the principal items came from a 

 ^hlJc refuse pit beneath the kitchen (Pit 1), T.X. 23) 







65 Noel Hume. "Excavations at Roscwell," p. 220, foot- 

 note 96. 





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