Artifacts and Features
Name: Gold-Plated Copper Clothing Hook
Type: Metal
Dimensions: Length: 1.5cm
Date Range: seventeenth century
Site: Cupids
Culture: European
Description: A gold-plated copper clothing hook found east of the storehouse in Cupids. Gold-plated hooks like these would have been worn on the clothing of someone of high social status: possibly John Guy or the colony's second governor, John Mason. Name: Clay Tobacco Pipe
Type: Clay Pipes
Dimensions: Length: 69 mm; Height: 29 mm (at bowl).
Date Range: 1640-1660
Site: Cupids
Culture: European - English
Description: Clay tobacco pipe manufactured in England sometime between 1640 and 1660 and found inside Structure 5 at Cupids. Name: Tin-Glazed Footed Cup or Taca.
Type: Ceramics
Dimensions: Height: 2 1/4 inches (5 cm).
Date Range: 1620-1630
Site: Cupids
Culture: European - Portuguese
Description: Portuguese tin-glazed footed cup fragment. Blue design, medallions containing floral motifs separated by small columns, on a white background. Found in the storehouse. It may have been used for either food or beverages. Name: Copper Shoe Buckle
Type: Metal
Dimensions: Date Range: mid-seventeenth century
Site: Cupids
Culture: European - English
Description: Small oval copper shoe buckle found just east of the storehouse. Name: Bellarmine Face
Type: Ceramics
Dimensions: Date Range: Seventeenth Century
Site: Cupids
Culture: European - German
Description: Charred face from a German manufactured Bellarmine bottle found broken on the cobblestones west of the dwelling house.