Archaeological Dig

Archaeological Dig
– Fragments of the Past Video
Architecture
Documents
Drawings
Newspaper
Photography
Postcards
Renovation 1924

Aqua ink well, undated, unknown potter

Brown ink well, undated, unknown potter

“Sporting Scenes,” a brown transferware plate in the Albert pattern, produced by James Frederick Wileman at the Foley Potteries, South Staffordshire, England, between 1866 and 1892.

Valentine’s Meat Juice, used to treat diarrhea and dysentery, Richmond, Virginia, after 1871

China doll heads and leg, undated

(left) brown/amber apothecary bottle, pre-1900, Maltine Mfg. Co Chemists New York (middle) aqua apothecary bottle, S.O. Richardson Bitters, South Reading, Massachusetts, 1860s (right) green apothecary bottle, undated

(left) bottle, Whittemore Boston “French Gloss,” for blacking and polishing ladies’ and children’s boots and shoes, 1920s (center) clear bottle, Clicquot Club, Millis, Massachusetts undated (right) bottle, Baker’s Flavoring Extract, Baker Extract Company, Springfield, Massachusetts, undated

Brown transferware saucer, unknown date, unknown potter

(middle left) light green bottle, undated) (middle) green bottle, Munyon’s Inhaler, one of the items in a supply package to hold the arrangement of glass tubes and black rubber corks to create an inhaler when inserted into the appropriate liquid inside the bottle, Munyon’s Home Remedy Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1880-1900, cures colds, catarrh, and throat and lung diseases (middle right) clear bottle, undated (right) pharmaceutical clear bottle, C.C. Bingham Pharmacist St. Johnsbury, Vermont, after 1845

Semi-porcelain earthenware plate, Anthony Shaw & Co, Burslem, England. 1898-1900

Redware milk pan, 1730-1830

Umbrella-shaped ink wells, undated

(left) square-based ink well, L.B. & Company, Boston, undated: other ink wells from undetermined manufacturer.

3 bottles, undated

Japanese Imari partly transfer, partly hand-painted Chocolate Pot with missing lid, dated 1890 to 1921.

Ironstone bowl, Cook & Hancock, Trenton, New Jersey, between 1881 and 1910

Ironstone bowl, Cook & Hancock, Trenton, New Jersey, between 1881 and 1910

Bone china saucer, Charles Allerton, Staffordshire, England, between 1903-1912

(top) 6.25-inch spike (bottom) 5.5-inch railroad spike

Assorted clay pipe bowls and stem, undated

(background) undated bowl (right) thimble, undated

(left) clear glass (middle) bottle, Baker’s Flavoring Extract, Baker Extract Company, Springfield, Massachusetts, undated (right) amber bottle, Perry Davis Vegetable Pain Killer, Providence, Rhode Island, after 1854

Davis, Vegetable Pain Killer, Providence, Rhode Island, about 1866

Baker's Flavoring Extracts, Baker Extract Company, Full Measure, Strength & Purity, Springfield, Massachusetts — Baker’s Flavoring Extracts, Baker Extract Company, Full Measure, Strength & Purity, Springfield, Massachusetts

These artifacts, as well as others, were discovered in a 1976 dig behind the Peak House. They are either in storage or on display. (Photos courtesy of Edmund Prescottano)