Figure 57. — Siruutuke H. tiom PuIuhur Circck shore, looking northeast. 



1 .5 feet thick. The stiucturc had been Iniilt into the 

 hillside, so that the north end was presumably a deep 

 basement. 



Artifacts were few. A complete scythe (fig. 90) was 

 found embedded in the clay above the brickwork on 

 the cast side of the structure, and next to it a large 

 body sherd of black-glazed Buckley ware. A few 

 small ceramic sherds occurred — pieces of redware 

 with trailed slip (fig. 64), and small bits of delft, 

 salt glaze, and Chinese porcelain. 



The location and implied shape of the building 

 suggest that it had a utilitarian purpose. Near the 



waterfront, it would conveniently have served as a 

 warehouse, or possibly as either the brewhouse or 

 malthouse, each described by Mercer as ha\'ing been 

 100 feet long, of brick and stone. Whether one was 

 of brick and the other of stone, or both were brick and 

 stone in combination, is not clear. There was no 

 evidence of stonework in Structure H. On the other 

 hand, the 100-foot-long rectangular stone enclo.sure, 

 of which Wall A formed a part, shows no evidence 

 of brickwork. The purposes of both these structures 

 must, for now, remain unexplained, but association 

 with the brewery seems plausible. 



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