form Hi .1 broad but thin-sectioned band set ;n 

 .1 right angle to the blade, an early characteristic. 80 

 T.N. 



16. Pair <>t iron scissors with one blade broken, of 

 similar type t<> the above. The loop and shall of 

 the lrli section are much more substantial than the 

 right, suggesting that although the components 

 were found attached they were not originally made 

 for each other. T.N. 23. 



17. Left sideofiron casing for a fleam. An example 

 (il similar shape and size was found in excavations 

 at Jamestown. T.N. 23. 



18. Pair of iron dividers with bulb terminal and lines 

 somewhal convex on the outside faces." T.N. 23. 



19. Iron key with round-sectioned loop: stem round- 

 sectioned and narrow at junction with loop and 

 becoming much wider in midsection, then tapering 

 attain, as it approaches the web. The pin is solid 

 and terminates in a small nipple: the web is divided 

 and much decayed, with the foresection repre- 

 sented by only a small fragment that is much 

 thinner than its companion. It would appear thai 

 the key had been violently wrenched in a lock, 

 resulting in the breaking of the web and the 

 twisting and fracturing of the loop. T.N. 23. 



20. Small tool of uncertain purpose, perhaps an awl. 

 Broad and flat at one end, in the manner of a 

 screwdriver or drill shank, and becoming round- 

 sectioned and narrowing to a point at the other 

 end. T.N. 30. 



21. Iron spoon bit with flattened shank terminal. 

 Spoon convexo-concave in section, saucerecl upwards 

 ,n tin- lower end to the same height as the walls of 

 the trough, and terminating in a worm or twist 

 of two surviving revolutions. 82 T.N. 23. 



22. Iron quillon and knuckle bow mounting from 

 sword. 83 T.N. 23. 



FIGURE 16. BUILDERS HARDWARE 

 AND OTHER METAL ITEMS 



1 . An object of uncertain purpose, made from sheet 



• As the 18th century progressed, loops tended to be more 



round-sectioned. By tin- end nl tin- colonial period most loops 



display their greatest width on the same plain- as thai of the 



blade See Noel Hume, "Excavations at Rosewell," p. 198, 



1 . no. 13. 



■' For a similar example sec Hudson, JV< D ries at James- 



H. C. Mercer, /.><>/> i Doylestown, 



ntv Historical Soi iety, 1951 I, p. 182. 



Ii mi 'I il Rosewell," p. 198, lit;. 21, 

 no. 14. 



iron rolled at the sides over a wire to provide round- 

 sectioned edges and more roughly folded for the 

 same purpose at the lower edge. The central hole- 

 has been deliberately cut. The object, whose 

 shape resembles the terminal from a cheekpiece of 

 a snaffle bit, has been broken at the narrow end. 

 suggesting that it was too light in construction to 

 have been intended for such a purpose. T.N. 19. 



2. Tang and part of blade front an iron sickle. 

 Blade is triangular in section, and the cutting edge 

 commences approximately 2 1 ., in. from the haft. 

 T.N. 23. 



3. Blade fragment from sickle of larger size than the 

 above, triangular in section, and bearing some 

 indication that the back has been hammered. 

 T.N. 17. 



4. Front plate and part of mechanism of bag-shaped 

 padlock. The keyhole cover is now missing but 

 originally it was hinged, and not pivoting as has 

 been common on locks since the second half of the 

 18th century. 84 The bolt, which survives, is fitted 

 with a spring at the rear and has two wards pro- 

 jectins; from its midsection. T.N. 27. 



5. Chest or coffin handle, iron. Handhold is J£ in. in 

 width at its widest point and tapers at either end. 



The terminals, of disk form, serve to hold the 

 handle at right angles to the wood of the chest. 

 Such handles were attached by means of cotter pins. 

 The form was common in the 17th century. 85 

 T.N. 24. 



6. Iron spike of large size, measuring 5% in. in 

 (surviving) length, K in. by 7 1(i in. at the broken top. 

 and approximately K in. by ' 4 in. at the bottom. 

 This was the largest spike found on the site. T.N. 

 22. 



7. Iron spike with heavy square head. Length 4% 

 in.; shaft at head measures 7 i 6 in. by 'V, in. and is 

 spatula-ended. T.N. 23. 



8. Ring-headed bolt. Collar beneath the loop, 

 with the shaft round-sectioned and l u ,„ in. of 

 threading above the pyramidical point. The nut 

 measures approximately % in. by % in. 86 T.N. 17. 



9. Iron bolt or rivet with large thin head 1 ' 4 in. in 



s( Both the baglike shape of the lock and the hinged keyhole 

 cover an' indicative of a date in the late 17th century or eat K 

 18th century. 



85 Hrnsn\, New Discoveries at Jamestown, p. 26. 



■'■A similarly headed object, but slotted at tin- other end to 

 hold a linchpin, was found at Jamestown and considered to be 

 an item of marine hardware. Hudson, Vew Discoveries at James- 

 town, p. 85. 



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