More than 80,000 artifacts (comprised of materials such as serving and preparing dishes, wine bottles, wine glasses, tobacco pipes, buttons, nails, lock parts, gunflints, shot, animal bone, beads, sewing implements, horse furniture, cooking pots, utensils, and various other remnants) were recovered from the site. Some of these are visible below. As further analysis occurs, a clearer picture should emerge as to the daily life of the sites’ occupants speaking to those both free and enslaved.
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| Just a few examples of the hundreds of local “Chesapeake” (upper right) and English imported tobacco pipe fragments found during excavation. Note the impressed design on the Chesapeake pipe. |
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| Fragments of material illustrating daily life on the Atkinson site. This photo Includes portions of an English wine bottle, ceramic serving dishes, a medicinal pot, a copper alloy spoon bowl and ladle, a curtain ring, a buckle, a button, a piece of lead shot, a clothing pin, straight pins and a fragment of a gunflint. |
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| The Atkinson site also revealed over 74 beads of varying colors and sizes, reflecting some of the personal effects of the slaves present on the site. |
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