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Artifacts and Features
Type: Glass
Dimensions:
Date Range: seventeenth century
Site: Cupids
Culture: European
Description:
Glass trade beads from the Cupids site. These four glass beads, and hundreds of others recovered from the site, were probably intended for trade with the Trinity Bay Beothuk.
Name: Another
Type: Clay Pipes
Dimensions: Bowl Height: 27mm; Bowl Width: 12 mm (at rim).
Date Range: 1590-1610
Site: Cupids
Culture: European - English
Description:
"Little Ladell" clay tobacco pipe. Made in London sometime between 1590 and 1610. Like the example shown above, this one was found just west of the dwelling house in Cupids.
Name: West Country Clay Tobacco Pipe
Type: Ceramics
Dimensions: Stem Length:47 mm; Bowl Height: 42 mm.
Date Range: 1680-1720
Site: Cupids
Culture: European - English
Description:
Typical West Country clay tobacco pipe from the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It was probably manufactured in Devon and was found just east of the north end of the dwelling house.
Name: Raeren Jug Fragment
Type: Ceramics
Dimensions: Height: 74.7 mm; Width: 46.6 mm
Date Range: Circa 1600
Site: Cupids
Culture: European
Description:
Rim fragment from a salt-glazed stoneware jug manufactured in the town of Raeren in what is now Belguim and found northeast of the dwelling house. Fragments of this or a similar vessel have been found elsewhere on the site. One fragment was found on the cellar floor inside the storehouse.
Name: kontol
Type: Clay Pipes
Dimensions: Bowl Height: 27 mm; Bowl width: 12 mm (at rim).
Date Range: 1590-1610
Site: Cupids
Culture: European - English
Description:
Extremely small bowl with no rouletting around the rim and a tear drop shaped heel. This clay tobacco pipe is typical of pipes manufactured in London between 1590 and 1610.