Transfer-Printed Wares at Drayton Hall

Summary

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

During summer of 2024, a project at Drayton Hall Plantation was undertaken to look into the assemblage of transfer-printed wares found on site. The project centered around the historic core of the property, including the main house and dependency buildings. The project involved over 2500 sherds from 106 different contexts from excavations taking place over the last fifty years at Drayton Hall. The goals were to identify cross mends between the various contexts, as well as to identify the patterns and genres found in the collection of transfer print. This project focused on collections of artifacts from previous excavations and included finds from the more recent excavation of the North Flanker completed in summer of 2024. The project resulted in the identification of numerous crossmends helpful in clarifying the site's timeline and relationship, as well as the classification of genre types that were preferred by the Drayton family.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2025   •
• 2025 SHA Poster Submissions

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