Figure 90. — Scvthk found against 

 outside of east wall. Structure H. 



tubular, tinned, shect-iion .shaft handle which is 

 secured by a brass ferrule to the head and biazed 

 together with brass. The lower end is plugged with 

 brass, where a longer handle perhaps was attached. 

 In 1748 Sydenham & Hodg.son, through William Jor- 

 dan, imported for Mercer "A Sett Clockmakers tools." 

 This entr\ is annotated, '"Rcturn'd to AP Jordan." 

 Although the hannner cannot be related to this par- 

 ticular set of tools, the ledger item suggests that fine 

 n(jik like clockmaking may have been conducted at 

 Marlborough. This tool may have been \ised in the 

 process. 



Illustration 79. — Wrought-iron 

 from plow. One-fourth. (U 

 60.88.) 



Illustration 80. — Hook used with 

 wagon or oxcart gear. One-half. 

 (U.SNM 60.9.) 



Illustration 81. — Left, bolt with wingnut. One-hall. 

 (USNM 60.145.) 



Illustration 82. — Right, lashing hook from cart or 

 agricultural equipment. One-half. (L'SNM 59.2030.) 



FARMING, HORSE, AND VEHICLE GEAR 



The 1771 inventory is in some ways a more signifi- 

 cant summary of 18th-century plantation equipment 

 than are the artifacts found at Marlborough, since 

 its list of tools is longer than the list of tool artifacts 

 and is pin-pointed in time. However, artifacts define 

 themselves concretely and imply far more of such 

 matters as workmanship, suitaljilily to purpose. 



source of origin, or design and form, than do mere 

 names. The Marlborough tools and equipment, 

 moreover, correspond, as iar as they go, very closely 

 with the items in the inventory, thus becoming 

 actualities experienced by us tactually and \-isually. 

 For instance, the inventory lists 22 plows at Marl- 

 borough. .Among the fiiicls is an iron colter from a 



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