The Royal Armorer, Visiting Indian Delegations, and Colonoware at the Heyward-Washington House: Tales from a Legacy Collection

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: How I Learned to Stop Digging and Love Old Collections" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The Heyward-Washington house is the first house museum in Charleston, South Carolina (opened in 1929) and site of the first large –scale urban archaeological investigation (1974-1977). It is now the largest legacy collection housed at The Charleston Museum. The c.1772 house is at least the third on the property. The site produced large assemblages from the gunsmithing operation of John Milner Sr. from 1730 to 1749, and that of his son from 1749-1768, as well as materials from the Heyward family in the late 18th century. New dissertation research resulted in re-cataloging and digitization of that collection. Reexamination of the colonoware assemblage from the site by four archaeologists, coupled with new documentary research, produced surprising new data on colonial Charleston, and the people who occupied the Church Street property. This paper describes the pottery assemblage and the ways it differs from other urban sites.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020   •
• Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: How I Learned to Stop Digging and Love Old Collections

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