Colonial Era (17th and 18th Centuries) (Temporal Keyword)

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Pump Up the Jambs: Expanding the Catalog of Known Colonial Era Decorative Delftware Fireplace Tiles from Archaeological Contexts in North Carolina and Beyond (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas E. Beaman. Jr..

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1996, I presented a study on decorative delftware fireplace tiles recovered from three structures in eighteenth-century Brunswick Town. At that time, these were the only delftware tiles known or reported from archaeological contexts in North Carolina. Yet in the past 22 years, as a result of more recent excavations and ongoing re-analyses on a number of archaeological...