The Eyreville Site (44NH0507), Northampton County, Virginia: The Dutch Connection in the Middle 17th-Century

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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.

The Eyreville Site (44NH0507) is located on the bayside of Virginia's Eastern Shore on an expansive terrace of Cherrystone Creek. Along with the standing 18th / 19th-century plantartion house, 17th-century brick foundations and an early 17th-Century earthfast structure offer an opportunity to document the diachronic change of an Eastern Shore plantation system. The copious number of yellow Dutch bricks as well as the frequency of decorated Dutch pipes and Dutch ceramics chronicle significant trade with the Netherlands during this time period. The initial impression is that the 17th-century Dutch influence and material culture is magnified on the Eastern Shore. This paper will examine procurement technologies and strategies (both legal and illegal) and ethnic, religious, and social ties as causal factors.

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• Archaeological Research of the 17th Century Chesapeake   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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