The most obvious feature of the defensive works is a large ditch, some 6.1 metres (20 feet) wide and about 1.2 metres (4 feet) deep that seems to have bordered at least the entire eastern side of the colony.

Between 1992 and 1995 a portion of the 17th-century waterfront was revealed.

The articles that follow is an attempt to identify the owners of 19 bottle-seal fragments from English glass wine bottles and to provide some insight into the practice of bottle-sealing.

Page 1 showing nine bottle-seal fragments from 17th and 18th century English glass wine bottles unearthed at the Colony of Avalon.

Page 5 of a sample of miscellaneous artifacts unearthed at the Colony of Avalon.

Page 4 of a sample of miscellaneous artifacts unearthed at the Colony of Avalon.

Page 1 of a sample of miscellaneous artifacts unearthed at the Colony of Avalon.

Page 6 of a sample of miscellaneous artifacts unearthed at the Colony of Avalon.

Page 6 of a sample of miscellaneous artifacts unearthed at the Colony of Avalon.

Page 3 of a sample of miscellaneous artifacts unearthed at the Colony of Avalon.

Page 2 of a sample of miscellaneous artifacts unearthed at the Colony of Avalon.

Page 5 of a small sample of pipe bowls, showing their pipemarks, and unearthed at the Colony of Avalon.

Page 4 of a small sample of pipe bowls, showing their pipemarks, and unearthed at the Colony of Avalon.

Page 1 of a small sample of pipe bowls, showing their pipemarks, and unearthed at the Colony of Avalon.

Page 6 of a small sample of pipe bowls, showing their pipemarks, and unearthed at the Colony of Avalon.

Page 3 of a small sample of pipe bowls, showing their pipemarks, and unearthed at the Colony of Avalon.

Page 2 of a small sample of pipe bowls, showing their pipemarks, and unearthed at the Colony of Avalon.

An introduction to a small sample of pipe bowls, showing their pipemarks, and unearthed at the Colony of Avalon.

At some time during the 17th century the settlement at Ferryland began to spread beyond the original four-acre town site. One such house, located east of the original settlement on the Ferryland Downs, was excavated during the mid-1990s.

A Ferryland legend of long standing held that a well existed somewhere in the vicinity of our excavations. The story relates how the well had stood abandoned long after its use as a water source, and that a child had fallen into the well and drowned.