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Anderson's Blacksmith Shop: A Case for the Tinsmith among the Anvils

Katherine W. Schupp

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Department of Archaeological Research P.O. Box 1776 Williamsburg, VA 23187-1776 (757) 220-7330

Katherine W. Schupp Project Archaeologist Marley R. Brown III Principal Investigator

August 2002

Anderson's Blacksmith Shop: A Case for the Tinsmith among the Anvils

by Katherine W. Schupp

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Department of Archaeological Research

P.O. Box 1776 Williamsburg, VA 23187-1776

(757) 220-7330

Katherine W. Schupp Project Archaeologist

Marley R. Brown III Principal Investigator

August 2002

Table of Contents

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List of Figures ................................................................................................... iii Photo and Illustration Credits ............................................................................ v Acknowledgments ........................................................................................... vii

Chapter 1. Introduction ..................................................................................... 1 Chapter 2. Description of the Project Area ........................................................ 3 Chapter 3. Environmental Setting ...................................................................... 5 Chapter 4. Research Design and Methods ......................................................... 7

Research Design ....................................................................................... 7 Field Methods .......................................................................................... 8 Laboratory Procedures ............................................................................. 8 Chapter 5. Anderson History ............................................................................ 9 Chapter 6. Results and Interpretations ............................................................. 19 Eighteenth-CenturyActivity and Occupation: Pre-Anderson ..................... 19 Eighteenth-CenturyActivity and Occupation:Anderson Period ................. 26 Nineteenth-CenturyActivity and Occupation ........................................... 46 Twentieth-CenturyActivity and Occupation ............................................. 52 Chapter 7. Conclusion .................................................................................... 57 Bibliography ................................................................................................... 61 Appendices Appendix 1. Context Register ................................................................. 65 Appendix 2. Master Context Register ..................................................... 73 Appendix 3. Harris Matrix Diagram ........................................................ 77 Appendix 4.Analysis of Tinned Iron ........................................................ 81 Appendix 5. Transcriptions from the Galt Daybook ................................. 87 Appendix 6.Archaeoparasitology Report ................................................ 93 Appendix 7.Artifact Inventory ................................................................ 97

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