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Miscellaneous Artifacts: Page 5
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Brass friendship ring (Fld-168)
Brass friendship ring from the late 17th century
bearing the inscription "BE TRUE IN HART" on the inside.
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Brass shoe buckle (Fld-439)
Brass buckle, probably a shoe buckle, dating from the late 17th century.
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Small glass bottle (Fld-146)
Small glass bottle, on the cowhouse floor at the time it
burned in 1696. It may have been used to hold medicine or perfume.
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Foot of a wineglass (Fld-409)
Foot of a wineglass dating from the first half of the
17th century. Although wineglasses are rare on 17th-century
sites in England, a number have been found at Ferryland.
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Wineglass stem (Fld-414)
Wineglass stem dredged from The Pool can be dated
stylistically to the early 17th century, or the time of Avalon.
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Plum pits (Fld-177)
Plum pits were discarded in the privy throughout
the 17th century. The plum trees found on the Ferryland
site and throughout the southern Avalon Peninsula today
are descended from plums brought by the first settlers at Avalon.
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Small chert arrowpoints and a large chopper or blank (Fld-330)
Small chert arrowpoints and a large chopper or blank,
associated with Beothuk Indian hearths dating from the early 1500s.
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Unusual tobacco pipe (Fld-427)
Unusual tobacco pipe, thought to be West African
in origin. A near-identical pipe was recovered from the
wreck of the HMS Sapphire at nearby Bay Bulls. The Sapphire
and the cowhouse where the Ferryland example was found were
both destroyed in 1696. The pipe may have come from Virginia
as a novelty, or may indicate the presence of people of African
origin at Ferryland during the late 17th century.
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Gold finger ring
Gold finger ring consisting of a fine chain, two small
bands and a twisted gold wire, found in a layer dating to
the last years of the 17th century. It may have been lost
during the French attack on September 21, 1696.
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Gold finger ring with cross-hatched decoration
Gold finger ring with cross-hatched decoration, found only 2 m from the
other ring and probably lost at the same time. The two rings are of different sizes.
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©1999, James Tuck
Archaeology Unit, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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