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Sarsaparilla Bottle Fragment
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The light color of this musket ball is due to a natural buildup of lead carbonates, sulfides and oxides over time, which helps confirm its age and material composition.

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Background: The website, Diagnostic Artifacts of Maryland, allows us to conclude that the artifact that we excavated is a German brown salt glaze stoneware with iron oxide slip from the 17th century (Image 1). This is most likely from the neck of a…
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Side view of bottle fragment

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Turquoise Glass Bead. This Class II 2A31 bead was likely made between the mid 17th and 18th centuries in Venice or Amsterdam. It is 0.6 cm in diameter and 0.5cm long.

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Blue Hand-painted Shell-edged Pearlware Plate Sherd

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Image of curved roof tile excavated from unit H931, Level 5, depth of 88-90cm. Found near the center of the unit near concentration/arrangement of brick, slate, and other roof tile.

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Fragment of a Clear Glass Tumbler

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The eye stamped into this sherd makes it easily recognizable as a shard of Bellarmine, a name which alludes the Roberto Bellarmino (1542-1621), a Cardinal allegedly hated by protestant potters. Bellarmine-style stoneware has been dated as far back as…

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The malleability of lead made it a popular choice for building components.  Due to its low melting point, lead is rarely found fully in tact and is typically bent or twisted.

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Tin-glazed earthenware sherd. This ceramic sherd is distinguishable as tin-glazed earthenware by its buff pasty and shiny, fragile glaze. It is 1.9 cm long, 1.2 cm wide, and 0.4 cm thick.
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Blue and white, flat, triangular piece of Chinese porcelain. Slightly curved on the tip opposite of the design. Thickness increases towards this tip.

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In the hurried production of the coin, some of the 1864 minted pieces were accidentally made with a smaller motto.

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Seventeenth-century red clay brick that was likely used in the original construction of the chimneys or cellar floor of the Old College (begun 1638, completed 1643).

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Red Clay Tobacco Pipe Bowl

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