iited to (lie Chickahominy Series: dating late 

 Woodland to early Contact eras."' 02. 



7. Body sherd, native Indian pottery. Wall thiekness 

 YiR inch; shell tempered; scraped interior; e.xterior 

 fabric impressed and ornamented with hatched in- 

 cised lines (slight shell tempering); fired in reducing 

 atmosphere to gray-brown. Kl. 



8. Body sherd native Indian pottery. Wall thickness 

 i'fe inch; shell tempering shows only on interior; 

 stamped decoration (see no. 6) ; fired in reducing 

 atmosphere to gray interior and gray-brown ex- 

 terior. B4. 



9. Body sherd, native Indian pottery. Broken on 

 coil line; wall thickness J4 inch; coarsely shell- 

 tempered; exterior faljric impressed; fired in oxi- 

 dizing atmosphere to pale orange. Surface. 



10. Body sherd, native Indian pottery. Broken on 

 coil line; wall thickness % inch; coarsely shell- 

 tempered; scraped interior; exterior fabric im- 

 pressed; fired in oxidizing atmosphere to pale 

 orange, same type as no. '). Surface. 



11. Body sherd, native Indian pottery. Wall thick- 

 ness ^4 inch; shell-tempered; exterior fabric im- 

 pressed; fired in poorly controlled oxidizing atmos- 

 phere, pale gray-brown interior, brown to pink 

 exterior. Chickahominy Series."'- El (top 6 inches). 



12. Body sherd, native Indian pottery. Wall thick- 

 ness }i inch; temper leached out; some scraping 

 internally; fal)ric-impressed exterior; fired in re- 

 ducing atmosphere to an even gray. 01. 



13. Bowl or dish, Colono-Indian pottery. Rim 

 sherd; wall thickness, Ym to ^[e inch; rim everted and 

 tooled up from beneath; flattened on top; wall 

 sharply sloping; characteristic buff; shell-tempered 

 ware with gray core; stick or peljblc burnishing 

 inside and out. See p. 172. J2. 



14. Cooking pot leg, Colono-Indian pottery. Di- 

 ameter % inch; leg inade in .separate roll to be luted 

 to pot with smeared clay; stick or pebble i)urnished; 

 foot flat at bottom; ware buff to pink over gray 

 core; slight shell-temper. See p. 172. A2. 



15. Bowl, Colono-Indian pottery. Rim sherd; rim 

 flattened on top and slightly everted; body some- 

 what bulbous; wall thickness ji'ie inch; shell- 

 tempered; IjufT with slightly darker core; some 

 burnishing inside and out. See p. 172. B2. 



Figure 16 



1. Beverage bottle seal with initials "T.A.O." Im- 

 pressed from separate matrices. For further details 

 see p. 173.**^ From field surface south of graveyard, 

 unstratified. 



2. Bottle seal in oli\e-green glass. Bears the legend 

 "PVRMONT w.ater" "'' around a crowned shield 

 of arms. "Quarterly of nine. 0\erall, in the 5th 

 or an eight-pointed Star, sa. (Waldeck). In the 

 1st and 0th ar. a Cross ancree gu. (Pyrmont). In 

 the 2nd and 8th ar. three Shields gu. (Rappolstein). 

 In the 3rd and 7th ar. three Crows Heads sa. 

 tongued gu. crowned or (Hoheneck). In the 4th and 

 6thar.semy of Billets couchees az.a Lion gu. crowned 

 or.""^ Second to third quarter of 18th century. J2. 



3. Bottle seal, olive-green glass. Bears incomplete 

 legend ". . . e pyrmont vv.ATEfR] " around 

 crowned shield of arms as in no. 2; seal attached to a 

 shoulder fragment indicating bottle is of same shape 

 as sealed example shown in fig. 31, no. 6. Second 

 to third quarter of 18th century. Surface. 



4. Bottle seal, glass much decayed. Bears legend 

 ''*piERMONT [wJ.'^ter" around an eight-pointed 

 star. This is an early form of the Pyrmont water 

 seal. Two examples of this seal were found in a 

 coffee-house trash pit in London that has been dated 

 to the second quarter of the 18th century. From 

 field surface south of graveyard, unstratified. 



5. Neck of Pyrmont water bottle, pale amber glass. 

 Round-sectioned string-rim trailed around neck 

 and pressed to it with same tool used to ap]oly "Pier- 

 mont" seal; letter '"N" impressed into string-rim. 

 L^se of seal matrix for this purpose is not uncommon 

 and encourages belief that matrix was mounted close 

 to furnace mouth and that bottles were pre.s.sed 

 against it and not it against them. An identical 



*' Clifford Evans, A Ceramic Study of Virginia Archeology, 

 .Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology 

 Bulletin 160, Washington, 1955, p. 47. 



'2 Ibid., pi. 7, example "h" for closest parallel. 



•i* Sec also Ivor Noel Hume, "A Century of London Glass 

 Bottles," The Connoisseur Tear Book 1956, London, 1955, p. 103. 



«< Pyrmont was the capital of Waldeck, in Germany; it was 

 noted for its mineral springs, the waters of which were widely 

 exported. 



«5 The Iieraldic description of the arms is quoted from the 

 late Lady Ruggles Brise's book Sealed Bottles, London, 1 949, 

 p. 78. 



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