Untangling a "Jesuit" Ring from Virginia’s Coan Hall

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeological Studies of Material Culture (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In 1644, a group of men met a Coan Hall, located in Northumberland County, Virginia, to plan what would come to be known as Ingles Rebellion, the Protestant-led overthrowing of the Catholic Maryland government. Three-hundred-and-seventy-five years later, a French-manufactured, copper-alloy “Jesuit” ring with an engraved, interlocking “A” and “M” (Auspice Maria) was recovered from the core of the Coan Hall archaeological site. Using Coan Hall as a case study, this paper seeks to “untangle” the story of the the recovered ring to focus on themes surrounding identity, community formation, and trade.

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