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Almost no exclusively 1 7tli ti-ntiuy iirtifacts were 

 foiind at Marlborounh; at least, thcii" wcir very fi'w 

 sherds or objects that could not have orii^inated 

 e(niall\ well in the Dith century. The exceptions are 

 the foUowini;: Wcsterwald l)hie-and-\vhitc stoneware 

 witii i?ray-bufr paste; several sherds of delft and 

 other tin-enaiueled ware, late 17th century in type, 

 and an early 17th-centnry terra cotta pipcstcni. 

 Othenvise, we find a scattering of things Ix'lonijitig 

 to types that occurred in both centuries: North I)e\on 

 trravcl-tenipered ware, which was imported both in 

 the late 17th and early 18th centuries; ycllow-and- 

 brown "combed"" ware, which elsewhere occurs most 

 commonly in 18th century contexts; pewter trifid- 

 handle spoons, the form of which dates from alwut 

 ItiyO but which may have been cast at a later date 

 in an old mold (a wavy-end spoon in the style of 

 171(1 may also ha\e been cast later). Fragments of 

 an onion-shaped wine bottle may date from the first 

 decade of the 18th century, but the presence of such 

 bottles in the Roscwell trash pit shows that lH)ttle.s, 

 being too precious to throw away, were kept around 

 until they were broken -in the case of Rosewell 

 for 60 or 70 years. Thus the Marll)oroui;h sherds 

 cannot be excluded from the .Mercer period. The 

 same may be said of a late 1 7th-century type of 

 fork. Thus, there is \ irtually no e\ id<-nee of the I'ort 

 Town occupation, cxpecially as the lew I7th-ceniury 

 artifacts that were found may well have bclonRcd to 

 the .Mercers rather than to MarllMironRh's pre\ ions 

 occupants. 



The ceramics and glass are the most readily datable 



artifaci.s, and these coincide am ■ 

 the period of John Nfrrrrr"* '. 

 earthenwares arc pre<! ridc\% 



Buckley ty|jes, with a M.Ki.nnv of nr' 

 which are recurrent among other ' 

 Maryland historic-site artifact-t. Ntj 



emerges to suggest that there ' • 



.Stafford potter. Common sti • 



a \ariety of types that no source oi 



attributed, although there is son 



work of William Rogers' shop in ^ 

 wald stonewares are 



gray varieties comnio.. ... .... -, j..,.,. ■ , 



18th centurv. 



There is I 



great d<-al o; ' , 



the first kinds of Euelish refined w 



stoneware. .\oit 



were used at N: .. 



awareness of current l.i 



la I 



alti , 



regarded as hand.some and Ci> 



meni uf .i plantation honsr th.it w.ti J m 



I'oiiu.il stvle. 



I M I pt for the white •■ warr, which »»ii« 



p.. 

 cei 



the few datal»le i.ible-gl.tm I 

 niarilv fioni il 

 IHth- and earl 

 shnrpiv in ntinil a inorr aiuirrr lilr .»t 



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