1600-1800 (Temporal Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tania Manuel Casimiro. Sarah Newstead.

Although Portuguese ceramics are present in many cities across England, Plymouth is an extraordinary case of quantity and quality. Thousands of fragments of red coarsewares and tin glaze wares were identified across the city. One of the most extraordinary aspects is related to the type of these artefacts which are very similar to what Portuguese populations would use in Portugal. This aspect motivated the search for people and ships taking such cargo from Portugal and there is evidence of a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Henry M Miller.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeological Research of the 17th Century Chesapeake" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since J. C. “Pinky” Harrington’s 1954 publication of a method of pipe stem dating, it has become a significant tool in historical archaeology analysis. For convenience, he selected a 64ths of an inch metric that became standard.   Recent research using a much finer measuring increment reveals that pipe stems are capable...