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TABLE L.—Objects of European origin from Rupununi Phase sites 
Object 
Minute, white, opaque glass ‘‘seed”’ 
beads. 
Sherds of English white earthen- 
ware. 
Basal fragment of ovoid green glass 
bottle. 
Sherd of bubbly, thin, blown bottle 
of aquamarine glass. 
Sherd of olive-green, 
bottle. 
Tron blade fragment___--_.-..------- 
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cylindrical 
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Sherds of hand decorated, Stafford- 
shire, white earthenware. 
Base section of blown cylinder wine 
bottle. 
Sherds of square, dark-amber bottle _ 
Window glass sherds_____-_-_-___--- 
Sherd of salt glazed stoneware._-_---- 
Sherds of hard earthenware jar, 
glazed white. 
Sherd of molded glass___------------ 
Sherds of green glass bottle_______-__- 
Sherd of emerald green glass___-_--_- 
Razor bladers. © {Sse ie). 3-28 
Tip of knife blade. --<2 4._- 42-22. 
Sherd of olive-amber bottle glass - __- 
Sherds of heavy white earthenware_- 
Sherds of cylindrical wine bottle -_-- 
Sherds from stoneware gin jug_ _____ 
Clay-pipe fragments_____2______.___ 
Sherd of stoneware, glazed cream 
color. 
Miscellaneous glass bottle sherds, 
olive-amber and green. 
Sherd of flat surfaced amber glass___ 
Pale-green glass sherds_.______..__-_ 
Sherds from clear-glass bottles and 
jars. 
Small sherds of clear glass____._1___- 
Pieces of tinned iron spoons___--_.-- 
Triangular file blade:L_!0i2..._..._- 
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Remarks 
Diameter 1.5-2.0 mm.; thickness approxi- 
mately 1 mm., diameter of perforation 
1 mm. or less. 
One shell edge; 2 blue transfer-painted. 
Dating, 1815-40. 
Not diagnostic. 
Glass of this type was produced in North 
America until about 1870. 
Probably earlier than 1850. 
Not diagnostic. 
Crude specimen designed for a round handle. 
It isa somewhat degenerate form of the late 
17th or early 18th century trade ax found in 
Indian sites in the Eastern United States. 
This is presumably later, but not the prod- 
uct. of modern manufacture. Mercer 
(Ancient Carpenter’s Tools) shows numer- 
ous felling axes of English and American 
origin, the nearest to this in appearance 
being an ax found in Chester County, Pa. 
Hight-sided barrel of percussion cap gun, 
58 bore (.675). Post-1819. 
Swags of half-red are discernible. Decora- 
tion, thickness of paste, and foot rim point 
to a date 1790-1815. 
This shape and size in vogue from 1780-1830. 
Probably snuff or gin bottle. Late 18th or 
early 19th century. 
Thinness indicates date prior to 1830. 
Not diagnostic. 
Container for preserves. 
Raised letters“... N’S... ENT. MADE 
... CA... This probably does not 
date from before 1880. 
Raised letters ‘‘POP’’. 
century. 
Probably beer or mineral water bottle. Late 
19th or 20th century. 
Type made by Wade and Butcher and others 
at the turn of 20th century. 
Not diagnostic. 
Late 19th or 20th 
Blown glass, but not encrusted. Probably 
1815-40. 
Decorated with blue transfer painting. 
This is some of the ubiquitous products of 
the Staffordshire factories, made probably 
between 1820 and 1840. 
Comparable to base from R-6. Dates be- 
tween 1780 and 1830. 
Dutch, of a type made without much change 
of form or color from about 18380 to the 
present. 
From different pipes, all probably mid-19th 
century. One is molded in a corn pattern. 
Not diagnostic. 
Not earlier than 1850, but probably not later 
than 1900. 
Vertical ridges show that this was made in 
a mold. It is probably from a medicine 
bottle not earlier than 1830, but could be 
as late as 1900. 
ray from beer bottles. 1850 to early 
1900’s. 
Turned lavender from exposure to sun. 
Recent, almost certainly 20th century. 
Not diagnostic. 
Typical, cheap, stamped tinware of the late 
19th or early 20th century. 
Recent. 
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