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Total number of entries: 38
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Name: Tin-Glazed Footed Cup or Taca.
Type: Ceramics
Dimensions: Height: 2 1/4 inches (5 cm).
Picture: footed cup
Date Range: 1620-1630
Site: Cupids
Culture: European - Portuguese
Description: Portuguese tin-glazed footed cup fragment. Blue design, medallions containing floral motifs separated by small columns, on a white background. Found in the storehouse. It may have been used for either food or beverages.
 

Name: Clay Tobacco Pipe
Type: Clay Pipes
Dimensions: Length: 69 mm; Height: 29 mm (at bowl).
Picture: Cupids pipe 84357
Date Range: 1640-1660
Site: Cupids
Culture: European - English
Description: Clay tobacco pipe manufactured in England sometime between 1640 and 1660 and found inside Structure 5 at Cupids.
 

Name: Gold-Plated Copper Clothing Hook
Type: Metal
Dimensions: Length: 1.5cm
Picture: hook
Date Range: seventeenth century
Site: Cupids
Culture: European
Description: A gold-plated copper clothing hook found east of the storehouse in Cupids. Gold-plated hooks like these would have been worn on the clothing of someone of high social status: possibly John Guy or the colony's second governor, John Mason.
 

Name: Copper Buckle
Type: Metal
Dimensions: Length: 20 mm; Width:18 mm.
Picture: Cupids Buckle 72252
Date Range: circa 1600-1650
Site: Cupids
Culture: European - English
Description: Single cast flat backed copper buckle with beveled front and possible traces of silver. Probably a belt buckle, it was found east of the dwelling house.
 

Name: Tin Plated Copper Pin.
Type: Metal
Dimensions: Length: 26mm; Width: 2 mm.
Picture: Cupids pin 72256
Date Range: seventeenth century
Site: Cupids
Culture: European - English
Description: Tin plated, copper alloy pin found just north of the dwelling house. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these pins were used to hold clothing together.
 

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Text by William Gilbert, all photograps by William Gilbert unless otherwise indicated. @ 2004, William Gilbert & the Baccalieu Trail Heritage Corporation. Duplication of the material in this publication in whole or in part is prohibited without the prior written approval of the Baccalieu Trail Hertiage Corporation.