The Fishery: From Industry to Settlement

Fragment of Fishing Line CgAf-2: 126170 - Privy, 1620-1670

Fragment of Stone for sharpening hooks CgAf-2: 41977abd - Waterfront, 1650-1675

Large Lead Weight (suitable for bait seine) CgAf-2: 21509 - Waterfront, 1670-1700

Lead Weights - CgAf-2: 49005 58148 Waterfront, 1680-1700

Steel Blade of Splitting Knife CgAf-2: 35039 - Waterfront, 1550-1625

Iron "Pew" or Prong for moving fish CgAf-2: 39599 C - Waterfront, 1690s

Iron Gaff for moving fish CgAf-2: 97348 - Smithy Area, 1660-1700

Unidentified (Breton?) Coarse Earthenware Cookpot CgAf-2: 126064 etc. Below Smithy Area, about 1550

Beothuk "Debitage": debris from manufacture of stone tools Beothuk Hearth under Smithy Area, 1520-1570

Red Ochre - CgAf-2: 146149 Hearth below Smithy, 1520-1570

Toy Mouth Harp CgAf-2: 148635 - Waterfront, 1690s

Child's Toy Creamware Bowl CgAf-2: 182750 - Waterfront, after 1770

Drawer 1: Technology of the Fishery

Fish Hooks CgAf-2: 17444 21910 39203 58311 58430 Waterfront, 1690s

Lead Weights -- for Fishing Line CgAf-2 various Waterfront, Planter House, Fort 1600-1800

Whetstone for Knife - CgAf-2: 164223 Waterfront, date uncertain

Stone for Sharpening Fish Hooks CgAf-2: 5323 5372 - Smithy, 1620-1650

Drawer 2: Beothuk Lithic Material

"Debitage" -- Waste Material CgAf-2: 138608 140647 141480 147479 Beothuk Hearth, 1520-1570

Typical Small Flaked Stone "Arrowheads" CgAf-2: various - Beothuk Hearth, 1520-1570

End Blades in Various Sizes CgAf-2: various - Beothuk Hearth, 1520-1570

Typical Flaked Stone Scrapers CgAf-2: 125127 131644 135965 140648 157696 Beothuk Hearth, 1520-1570

Marbles - CgAf-2: 32878 88627 96390 Planter House and Waterfront, 1700-1900

Ground Slate Adze CgAf-2: 104307 - Beothuk Hearth, 1520-1570