Figure 35.--C:lay tobacco pipes. One-half. 



of barrel 8''s inches; .60 caHber. Possible traces of 

 an armorer's touch mark, a cross within a square, are 

 to be seen on the lower left facet, ] inch from rear. 

 The barrel is too short for this pistol to ha\e l)een 

 a standard military weapon. 18th century. E3. 



2. Tool, locally made, of imcertain purpose. See fig. 

 23, no. 10. 



3. Sickle (?). Roughly made and probably unfin- 

 ished; square-sectioned tang: blade broken; traces 

 of a cutting edge close to the break on the lower 

 edge; rectangular impression, % inch by 's inch, on 

 the reverse side of the blade 1% inches below the 

 tang might be the remains of crude mark of mak- 

 er. P2. 



4. Knife. Iron; single edge; flat tang pierced by 

 three holes for riveting bone or wooden plates to it 

 to provide the handle; extremely crudely made, the 

 tang being roughly folded and beaten into shape 

 without any efifort ha\ing been made to remove 

 surplus metal; likely to ha\c been of local manufac- 

 ture. G2. 



5. A.KC blade. Narrow, thickening to % inch below 



socket; socket Ijroken and appears to be imfinished, 

 suggesting that this item is another product of the 

 nearby forge. B2. 



6. Wedge-shaped item of uncertain purpose. Iron; 

 .somewhat bowed in section with greatest thickness 

 of 5-16 inch narrowing to approximately ]i inch at 

 either end; a rectangular hole at one end; the other 

 end blade-shaped. J2. 



7. Clhisel. Iron; hollow octagonal socket for wooden 

 handle; interior diameter % inch; blade slightly 

 waisted af)o\-e the cutting edge; sides of blade 

 crudely beaten and spreading to form ridges along 

 the edges; end of socket has been beaten until it 

 has spread, split and curled, indicating that the 

 chisel was used without the intended wooden han- 

 dle. This tool, probably a forming chisel or 

 firmer,'" was perhaps a [iroduct of the local forge. 



"'■> The closest parallel eneountered is to be found in Henry 

 C Mercer, Ancient Carpenters' Tools, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 

 The Bucks County Historical Society, 1951, fig. 148, no. 20633. 



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