Figure 86. — Metalwork; a, rim of pewter dish; b. table knife witli Sheffield-plated handle; 

 c, lid of pewter teapot (ill. 60j; d, silver teaspoon; e, wavy-end pewter spoon, early 18th- 

 century shape; f and g, tw^o trifid-end pewter spoons, late 17th-century shape (holes in g 

 were probably drilled to hold cord for suspension from neck). 



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Three, wliolc jjcvvter spouns, as well as sc\eral frag- 

 ments of spoons, were salvaged from the large trash 

 pit (Structure D). Two whole specimens and a frag- 

 ment of a third are trifid-handle spoons cast in a mold 

 that was probably made about 1690. One of these 

 (USNM 59.1669, fig. 86g, ill. 58) has had two holes 

 bored at the top of the handle, probably to enable the 

 user to secure it by a cord to his person or to hang it 



from a looj). This circumstance, plus the presence ot 

 such an carK' t\ pe of spoon in ait 18th-century context, 

 suggests that the spoons were made during the Mercer 

 period foi' kitchen or slave use from a mold dating 

 back to the Fort Town period. The spo<jns them- 

 selves may, of course, have survived from the Poit 

 Town lime and have been relegated to humhlc use on 

 the ()lantation. 



A somewhat later spoon, with "waNy-encr" handle, 

 comes from a mold of about 1710. It has the initial 



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