48 20 1145 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/345a37605a57e06f2e9db8137c4adfc5.png b3084f4f4aacf7dd5b148bda7b55ead6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Scratch Blue Stoneware Sherd https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/96f1837e6b58b31c8cd5d38e5a849b50.jpg 05c147cc040db39e9fd8b9a5d11ccc04 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource White Salt-Glazed Stoneware Saucer With Scratch Blue Decoration Description An account of the resource This saucer was found at the Three Cranes Tavern site in Charlestown, Boston. It is an intact example of the type of ware and design observed in the sherd. Notice the very similar chevron motif around the flat bottom of the saucer, similar to the location that the sherd would have corresponded to. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhcarchexhibitsonline/images/Three-Cranes/Three-Cranes-Tavern-Case-A/23-Saucer-White-Salt-Glazed-Scrath-Blue-Ves-18.jpg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Massachusetts Historical Commission https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/6dd09c80590cdc89e488ba3c6751d59a.jpg 79c723d23ed82d33c817a45a3a4141f0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource White Salt-Glazed Tea Bowl With Scratch Blue Decoation Description An account of the resource This bowl was also excavated from the Three Cranes Tavern Site and it is part of a matching set along with the saucer. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhcarchexhibitsonline/images/Three-Cranes/Three-Cranes-Tavern-Case-A/22-Tea-Bowl-White-Salt-Glazed-Scratch-Blue-Ves-119.jpg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Massachusetts Historical Commission https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/af49e9b73f8afb97f6eb4c3506885d14.jpg 09e2eb55d2ee9dbbd54ae36f7052e9dc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource First Page of the Townshend Acts of 1767 Description An account of the resource The Townshend Acts of 1767 were a series of acts proposed by Chancellor Charles Townshend and the British Parliament that instituted a series of taxes and regulations on various goods and government entities. The acts were source of discontent among the American colonists, including Harvard students. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://www.theworldsgreatbooks.com/Acts%20of%20Parliament/parliament%20ny%20assemb%20act.jpg Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 2017 Assignment 3 Archaeological Find Object Name Scratch Blue Stoneware Inventory Description Scratch blue (white salt-glaze with incised lines filled with cobalt blue glaze) stoneware sherd. Curved chevron design. Likely part of a saucer. Peabody Number 2016.29.1386 Intrasite H935 Level 4 Depth 73-83cm Class 1 Ceramic Class 2 Sherd Class 3 Body Quantity 1 Height (cm) Dimension of Object 1.4 Width (cm) Dimension of Object 1.1 Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object 0.8 Culture/Period Ca. 1744-1775 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Scratch Blue Stoneware Description An account of the resource Journal Entry: April 1768* Mother and Father just paid a visit. Boring, as usual. Before they left for home Mother left me a gift: a tea set. As if I needed another one! Mother had insisted on giving me a set when I first left to come to the College. It was a very fine set, real Chinese porcelain that she had made Father get for her. I never used it, of course, since I took my tea in the Commons. I ended up selling it to buy some rum. When she inquired about it I told her I had broken it. And what does she do? She gives me another set! This one is of a much stronger material; she clearly does not trust me with porcelain anymore. The matching bowls and saucers are English made. They seem sturdy and have a rather pleasant floral motif on them made by blue lines ingeniously scratched upon the surface (Hume 2001:117; MACL 2002). Sadly they will also remain as decoration for I do not intend to use them. I do not know why she keeps insisting on giving me tea sets. Of course, no respectable household is complete without one and I am quite familiar with the salutary effects of tea but such frivolous expenditure is unbecoming. At least my family is one of means and Father can afford Mother’s fancies. Similar excessive spending by women of the lower classes, however, is quite unacceptable and, frankly, a threat to our economy. Perhaps she thinks having my own set will encourage me to drink more tea and be more of a gentleman (Kowaleski-Wallace 1994). In any case, even if I did not take my tea in the Commons, with the plan that is unfolding it is unlikely these tea bowls would see much use. For I have talked with several of my classmates and we are planning to get all of the Senior Sophisters to pledge to refrain from the drinking of tea as a protest of the increased taxes implemented under Chancellor Townshend (Morrison 1936:133). *This is a fictionalized journal entry written from the point of view of an eighteenth century Harvard College senior. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Norman R. Storer Corrada Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Hume, Ivor Nöel 2001. A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America. University of Pennsylvania Press. Kowaleski-Wallace, Beth. 1994. Tea, Gender, and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century England. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 23: 131–45. Manhattan Rare Book Company n.d. The Townsend Acts of 1767. The World’s Great Books. Accessed May 6, 2017. http://www.theworldsgreatbooks.com/townsendacts.htm Maryland Archaeological Conservation Lab 2002. “White Salt-Glazed Stoneware.” Diagnostic Artifacts in Maryland. Accessed May 6, 2017. https://www.jefpat.org/diagnostic/ColonialCeramics/Colonial%20Ware%20Descriptions/WhiteSalt-glazed.html Massachusetts Historical Commission 2014. Three Cranes Tavern. MHC’s Archaeological Exhibits Online. Accessed May 6, 2017. http://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhcarchexhibitsonline/threecranes.htm Morison, Samuel Eliot 1936. Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636–1936. Belknap Press. Reprinted, 2006. 18 ceramic stoneware https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/542562adade5e946f96e1ba704dabb69.jpg 5aa9f540b7cb8e38314163276a9c1e6b Archaeological Find Object Name Shell Peabody Number 2021.6.577 Intrasite Level 7 H968 Quantity 3 Height (cm) Dimension of Object 1.8 cm Width (cm) Dimension of Object 1.4 cm Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object 1.1 cm Class 1 Organic Class 2 Shell Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shell Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 2025 Collection Archaeological Find Object Name Shell Inventory Description Shell Peabody Number 2025.8.499 Intrasite H987 Level 6 Depth 73-99 cm bd Class 1 Organic Class 2 Shell Quantity 3 Height (cm) Dimension of Object 1.4 Width (cm) Dimension of Object 1.1 Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object 0.2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shell https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/4d4348c3a9287624243d07b3b00fe881.jpg 874672ff2fec74b6a8c60261378ec6bd Archaeological Find Object Name Shell edge pearlware plate rim sherd Inventory Description A shell edge pearlware plate rim sherd with blue decoration on a white body. The edge is scalloped. Peabody Number 2021.6.38 Culture/Period 1800-1830s Intrasite H974 Depth 18-28cm Class 1 Ceramic Class 2 Earthenware Class 3 Pearlware Quantity 1 Height (cm) Dimension of Object 1.1 Width (cm) Dimension of Object 1 Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object 0.1 Century 19th century Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shell edge pearlware plate rim sherd 19th Century https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/76f6b2b8d191eec89b4e4bc5f0893756.JPG 4e8177c017fa8b81d6a96188badc0705 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/10fe652ac24774522c5f4b5fb5e26a4c.jpg 92476510f8f77d952b8ca7073f9be193 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/a32677b7cd962b2bdd089316ecc86eec.jpg 12c828570d87af3279eadb04c048904a Archaeological Find Object Name Shell Fragment Inventory Description Shell Fragment Peabody Number 2018.24.93 Intrasite H955 Level 1 Depth 51-61 cm Class 1 Organic Class 2 Shell Class 3 Fragment Quantity 5 Height (cm) Dimension of Object 1.9 Width (cm) Dimension of Object 1.6 Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object 0.2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shell Fragment Subject The topic of the resource These shell fragments found in Harvard Yard tell us a little about the diet of colonial students at Harvard. Shellfish, like the oysters seen here, would have made up part of the cuisine of any student at Harvard. Cookbooks from the seventeenth century tell us how they may have been served: covered in flour and then fried. In addition, images from the eighteenth century tell us how much they would have cost: twelve pence a peck (approximately 15 pounds). Dining at Harvard would have been a community affair, and there were very strict rules for dining staff about what could be served and when. One such rule was, “not to have the same dish ordinarily above twice in one week.” Students, professors, and tutors could all be found dining together in the hall. It is very possible that one of the dishes they dined on was shellfish, probably locally sourced from the Atlantic Ocean. Knowing the date of these particular shells is difficult to determine, as they are organic materials without any style or build that might indicate their time period. They were found with pipe stems dating between 1720-1800, so it is possible they are also from that time, but certainly not definitively. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived To frye Mussels, Perywinckels, or Oysters, to serue with a Ducke, or single by themselves. BOyle these shell-Fishes: then flowre and frye them: then put them into a Pipkin, with a pinte of Claret Wine, Sinamon, Sugar, and Pepper. Take your Ducke boyled or roasted, and put them into two seuerall Pipkins, if one be boyled, and the other roasted and a little Sugar, large Mace, and fryed toasts, stuck around about it with Butter. http://www.staff.uni-giessen.de/gloning/tx/1615murr.htm This 1615 cookbook shows a common method of cooking shellfish. The Puritans would have had English cookbooks like this one in 17th century New England. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:14107855 The Harvard Steward Records show what dining at Harvard would have been like, including the rule “That there always be two dishes for dinner.” Shellfish may have comprised one of those dishes. http://id.lib.harvard.edu/via/olvwork732808/catalog This 1733 image shows a man selling Oysters, a common food in the period, and a common find in the Harvard Yard Excavation. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jamie 17 organic https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/7d11d93d81d0a37146e4dccd0815dedf.jpg 91eb2ba1bd3a01bbdd2d0a5467aa96b6 Archaeological Find Object Name Shell fragments Peabody Number 2021.6.483 Intrasite H968 Level 5 Class 1 Organic Class 2 Shell Quantity 6 Height (cm) Dimension of Object 3.3 cm Width (cm) Dimension of Object 1.8 cm Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object 0.8 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shell fragment Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 2025 Collection Archaeological Find Object Name Shell fragment Inventory Description Shell fragment Peabody Number 2025.8.55 Intrasite H984 level 4 wall fall Depth 72-86 cmbd Class 1 Organic Class 2 Shell Class 3 Fragment Quantity 1 Height (cm) Dimension of Object 2 Width (cm) Dimension of Object 1.3 Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object 1.1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shell fragment Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 2025 Collection Archaeological Find Object Name Shell fragment Inventory Description Shell fragment Peabody Number 2025.8.546 Intrasite H987 Level 6 Depth 77-88 cm bd Class 1 Organic Class 2 Shell Quantity 1 Height (cm) Dimension of Object 1.3 Width (cm) Dimension of Object 1 Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object 0.3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shell fragment https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/0d7a2c6e54475893c7202afe67077bcd.jpg bd3e3d70a7d7c5f9fb5e583a0abadc19 Archaeological Find Object Name Shell fragments Inventory Description 2 pieces of shell fragment Peabody Number 2021.6.68 Intrasite H968 Level 2 Class 1 Organic Class 2 Shell Quantity 2 Height (cm) Dimension of Object 1.4 cm Width (cm) Dimension of Object 1.2 cm Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object 0.15 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shell fragments https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/328712b2a6048c8e7371265f2ac7d76a.jpg 7d4907ba87cd8114a6889da8a63c14d6 Archaeological Find Object Name Shell fragments Peabody Number 2021.6.85 Intrasite H968 Level 3 Class 1 Organic Class 2 Shell Quantity 3 Height (cm) Dimension of Object 2.6 cm Width (cm) Dimension of Object 1.4 cm Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object 0.4 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shell fragments Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 2025 Collection Archaeological Find Object Name Shell fragments Inventory Description Shell fragments Peabody Number 2025.8.591 Intrasite H982 Level 7 Depth 93-106 cmbd Class 1 Organic Class 2 Shell Class 3 Fragment Quantity 2 Height (cm) Dimension of Object 1.26 Width (cm) Dimension of Object 0.85 Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object 0.13 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shell fragments https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/42fdea4974b48c3e6b15a3d3f938cf81.jpg 300aa78c5c625e5e634dbbf2fa38e0a0 Archaeological Find Object Name shell piece (?) Inventory Description A small white fragment of shell or potentially ceramic Peabody Number 2021.6.100 Intrasite H970 L8 Depth 64+cm Class 1 Organic Class 2 Shell Quantity 1 Height (cm) Dimension of Object .4 Width (cm) Dimension of Object .2 Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object .2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource shell piece (?) https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/d607ad70729193a7efd5b371a775943d.jpg 54a6ee298d99e8df0e65512e92128caf Archaeological Find Object Name Sherds of lead glazed earthenware Inventory Description 7 sherds of lead glazed earthen ware of varying body and glaze colors. One has a brown body and the others have red bodies. The brown body has brown glaze and the red bodies have light brown/tan glaze. Peabody Number 2021.6.51 Intrasite H974 Depth 18-28cm Class 1 Ceramic Class 2 Earthenware Class 3 Sherd Quantity 7 Height (cm) Dimension of Object 3.5 Width (cm) Dimension of Object 2 Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object 1.6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sherds of lead glazed earthenware https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/7debb868f6373975c697103540fb665e.jpg b0e0aee7fb48ae62183669308c0a40aa Archaeological Find Object Name Slag Inventory Description Thin Piece of slag Peabody Number 2021.6.74 Intrasite H968 Level 2 Class 1 Glass Class 2 Slag Quantity 1 Height (cm) Dimension of Object 1.7 cm Width (cm) Dimension of Object 1.5 cm Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object 0.2 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Slag https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/3951736bd579d45839bb02e50bcad0d4.jpg 2dfebf67ec015db1191ba177414e3e44 Archaeological Find Object Name Slag Peabody Number 2021.6.84 Intrasite H968 Level 3 Class 1 Glass Class 2 Slag Quantity 2 Height (cm) Dimension of Object 4.4 cm Width (cm) Dimension of Object 3.3 cm Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object 2.7 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Slag https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/73392e86cf53f85d956b69ab4fd94131.jpg 8b7875c5ccf71fae0ba35f9bb5b2fc7d Archaeological Find Object Name Slag Inventory Description Piece of slag Peabody Number 2021.6.191 Intrasite H968 Level 4 Class 1 Metal Class 2 Miscellaneous Class 3 Slag Quantity 1 Height (cm) Dimension of Object 2.4 cm Width (cm) Dimension of Object 2.3 cm Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object 1.3 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Slag https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/18480054da57e08e48ed32f42c739bb2.jpg c7ec7a6c1aa54b0b48fcfd712729fd6d Archaeological Find Object Name slag Peabody Number 2021.6.378 Intrasite H970 L2 Depth 3-13cm Class 1 Metal Class 2 Miscellaneous Class 3 Slag Quantity 1 Height (cm) Dimension of Object 2 Width (cm) Dimension of Object 1.3 Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object .7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource slag https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/76eec5a79501c3c813a306e545903f0b.jpeg 18c31db2575066c9a8021e71c83a81ce Archaeological Find Object Name Slag Inventory Description 2 pieces of slag Peabody Number 2021.6.242 Intrasite H974 Level 2 Depth 28-38cm Class 1 Metal Class 2 Miscellaneous Class 3 Slag Quantity 2 Height (cm) Dimension of Object 4.5 Width (cm) Dimension of Object 3.2 Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object 2.4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Slag https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/cb2c22f204ab053e854a9b802f94ed9b.JPG 4db875cd6154bb1a0bbf385fff757c21 Archaeological Find Object Name Slag Peabody Number 2021.6.435 Intrasite Level 5 H968 Class 1 Metal Class 2 Miscellaneous Quantity 1 Height (cm) Dimension of Object 5.9 cm Width (cm) Dimension of Object 4.2 cm Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object 2.3 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Slag https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/anth1130/original/99d22a9df890d8c5083df7b47b77cb21.jpg 4ad461055f8f77ec5ec5a748d75e1be4 Archaeological Find Object Name slag Peabody Number 2021.6.539 Intrasite H970 L4 Depth 27-37cm Class 1 metal Class 2 misc Class 3 slag Quantity 3 Height (cm) Dimension of Object 3.5 Width (cm) Dimension of Object 2.5 Depth/Thickness (cm) Dimension of Object 1.9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource slag