Devon types. The collection was given to the United 

 States National Mtiseum. 



lEVVES, SUSSEX COUNTY, DELAWARE: TOWNSEND SITE. 



The Townsend site was excavated by members of 

 the Sussex County Arcbcological Society in 1947. 

 This was primarily an Indian site, but a pit or well 

 contained European artifacts, including a North 

 Devon gravel-tempered jar (fig. 25). The village 

 of Lewes, originally the Dutch settlement of Zwa- 

 anandael, was destroyed by the British, who occupied 

 the area in 1664.'*'' The European materials from 

 the Townsend site were given to the United States 

 National Museum. 



PLVMOUllI, PLYMOUTH COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS: "r.M." 

 SITE. 



.\ site of a house believed to have been Robert 

 Morton's, located south of the town of Plymouth, 

 was excavated by Henry Hornblower II. It con- 

 tained North Devon gravel-tempered sherds. The 

 collection is now in the archeological laboratory of 

 Plimoth Plantation, Inc., in Plymouth. 



Figure i8. — Gravel-tempcrcd pan (top) and cooking 

 pot with cover, all from Jamestown. The pan has 

 a height of ^'i inches and a diameter of 15 inches. 

 The pot is 6 inches high and g'l. inches in diameter; 

 the diameter of its cover is 10 inches. Colonial 

 National Historical Park. 



CALVERT COUNTY, MARYLAND: ANCELICA KNOLL SITE. 



Since 1954 Robert A. Elder, Jr., assistant curator 

 of ethnology at the United States National Museum, 

 has been investigating the site on the Chesapeake 

 Bay of a plantation or small settlement known as 

 .Angelica Knoll. This investigation has revealed a 

 generous variety of gravel-tempered utensil forms, 

 including both 17th and 18th century styles. The 

 range of associated artifacts points to a site dating 

 from the late 17th century to about 1765. 



KENT ISLAND, OUEEN .ANNE COUNTY, MAR-i'LAND. 



A small collection of late 17ih-century and early 

 18th-cenlury material — gathered by Richard H. 

 Stearns near the shore of Kent Island, a quarter-mile 

 south of Kent Island Landing — includes both North 



ROCKY NOOK, KINGSTON, PLYMOUTH COUNTY, MASSA- 

 CHUSETTS: SITES OF JOHN HOVVLAND HOUSE AND JOSEPH 

 HOWLAND HOUSE. 



The John Rowland house was built between 

 1628 and 1630; it burned about 1675. The site was 

 excavated between September 1937 and July 1938 

 under supervision of the late Sidney T. Strickland."" 

 Several gravel-tempered utensil sherds were found 

 here, as well as a piece of an oven (see fig. 26). .Arti- 

 facts from this and the following site are at the Plimoth 

 Plantation laboratory. 



The foundations of the Joseph Rowland house, 

 adjacent to the John How land house site, were exca- 

 vated in 1959 by James Deetz, archeologist at Plimoth 

 Plantation. This is the only New England site of 

 which we are aware that has yielded North Devon 

 sgraffito ware. Two successive houses apparently 



sfi Virginia Culkrn, Ilislory of Lewis, Delaware, Lewes, 1956; 

 C. A. Bonine, "Archeological Investigation of the Dutch 

 '.Swanendael' Settlement under de Vries, 1631-1632," The 

 Archeolog, .Vews Letter of the Sussex Archeological Association, Lewes, 

 December 1956, vol. 8, no. 3. 



'" S. T. .Strickland, Excavation oj Ancient Pilgrim Home Discloses 

 Nalure of Pottery and Other Details of Everyday Life, typescript, n.d. 



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