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by placing irregularly shaped pieces of sheet iron over small holes 
where they were pinned with narrow strips of sheet iron. These 
improvised rivets were simply pushed through slits, the ends bent 
sharply and both patch and rivets pounded. Both sides of the object 
are heavily soot-encrusted. 
A thin piece of sheet iron, circular in outline, measures between 16.5 
and 17.0 cm. in diameter. It appears to have been the bottom of a 
small bucket of about 1 gallon capacity. 
A musket ball badly deformed by impact came from Feature 1. In 
its deformed state it measures about .60 caliber. 
A strip of brass 8 mm. wide has been bent until the ends overlapped, 
forming a ring 1.65 cm. in diameter. It may have served as a finger 
ring or hair ornament. 
Two pieces of thin sheet zinc came from the site. One, from Feature 
8, measures 3.3 cm. in maximum length, with a width varying from 
1.0 to 1.3 cm. Three edges have been cut, the other broken. It does 
not appear to be part of a tool or ornament, and its shape suggests that 
it is a scrap or trimming discarded during the manufacture of some 
other object. A semicircular fragment of zinc from Feature 1 is 2.0 
cm. in width, and the outer edge is turned over evenly to form a narrow 
flange 4mm. in height. The inner margin is generally serrated, but in 
a few places the metal extends past the average width and the serra- 
tions become small, closely spaced punctates. The object may be part 
of the lid of a small container, the central part of which was outlined 
by acircle of small punctates. 
Glass and earthenware trade objects—F¥our of the thirteen glass 
fragments from the site came from Feature 3. Two of them found in 
the fireplace and partially melted represent part of the mouth and neck 
and a fragment of the side and base of a clear glass bottle. An unfused 
fragment from the floor is fluted, and all may be parts of the same 
bottle. The fluted fragment has been identified as being from a bottle 
of the type known as a pocket flask. 
A 2.0 mm. thick fragment of clear, flat glass came from Feature 5. 
One edge has been smoothed by grinding. It may be a mirror frag- 
ment. From the fireplace at the same house came an irregularly 
shaped fragment of dark greenish glass. It is 5 mm. in thickness, 
curved, and probably a bottle fragment. 
The remainder of the glass fragments came from Feature 8. Two 
sherds from the floor are of the same dark-greenish bottle glass that 
came from Feature 5, one suggesting by its marked curvature that it 
formed part of a bottle neck. The other is the bottom of a pocket 
flask identified as dating about 1840-1860 (pl., 12, a). Five glass 
fragments from the fireplace do not show heat effects. All are of 
clear glass and represent two bottles. Two fragments are from the 
mouth and neck of a small medicine bottle, the mouth of which 
