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11/30/2007
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Reconstructing Bottles at Cupids
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Cupids, November 30, 2007. 3:15 p.m.
Excavations at Cupids have finished for the season but work continues at the archaeology lab. Over the past few weeks some of the crew have been busy sorting the seventeenth-century bottle glass from the site. Preliminary analysis of the glass indicates that we have fragments from at least seventeen case bottles and sixteen onion bottles and shaft and globe bottles. Light-green, square-sided case bottles were first manufactured in the sixteenth century and continued to be used throughout the seventeenth; globular, long-necked shaft and globe bottles were produced during the middle decades of the seventeenth century; and dark-green, globular, short-necked onion bottles were common during the latter part of the seventeenth century and the early eighteenth century.
In some cases enough of a particular bottle has been recovered to allow us to undertake a partial reconstruction. The image above shows one of the partially reconstructed bottles as it looked this morning (November 30). This particular example dates to sometime between 1689 and 1700. Most of the fragments of this bottle were recovered from inside Structure 2 this past season. However some of the shards were found scattered as much as nine metres to the north of Structure 2 back in 1997. Work on this bottle and much of the other reconstruction work is being conducted by crew member Linda Saunders from Carbonear.
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11/6/2007
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Building a Walkway at the Cupids Site
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November 6, 2007
Wooden Walkway Constructed at the Cupids Site
Access to the archaeological site at Cupids will be greatly facilitated next season by the construction of a 130 ft (39.6 m) long wooden walkway that was completed last week. Four feet wide and built of pressure-treated wood, the walkway runs along the eastern and southern edges of the dwelling house and storehouse erected by John Guy and his men in the fall of 1610. Three square observation platforms have also been erected at intervals along its length and eight full-colour history boards will be placed along the walkway before the site opens for visitors again in June of 2008.
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9/24/2007
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West Country Households, 1500-1700
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Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Conference in Exeter
“The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology was founded in 1966 with the aim of promoting the archaeology of late medieval to industrial society in Britain, Europe and those countries influenced by European colonialism. The Society now covers the archaeology of the period up to the present day. To achieve this aim the Society publishes the biannual journal Post-Medieval Archaeology, and a twice yearly newsletter, as well as regular monographs, and holds conferences and meetings.”
The 2007 conference ran from September 14 to September 17 and was divided into two parts. The first part was held in Exeter, Devon and the second took place in Taunton, Somerset. The theme of the conference was “West Country Households, 1500-1700". Some of the sessions included: “The Development of the House and its Decoration, 1500-1700"; “Change in the House”; “The 17th Century Houses of Topsham”; and “Metalware and Ceramics in the Early-Modern Household”.
Other activities included a walking tour of Exeter titled “An Introduction to the Post-Medieval Archaeology of Exeter”, a Friday evening reception at the Guildhall in Exeter, and a Saturday evening trip to Topsham.
The Baccalieu Trail Heritage Corporation’s chief archaeologist, Bill Gilbert, attended the conference. Bill also spent several days at Bournemouth University in Dorset where he conducted a seminar on the archaeological discoveries made at Cupids over the past twelve years.
Click here to find out more about the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology.
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