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Musket

Musket

Firearm

Flint lock of an ancient musket found in old Indian burying ground at Bristol, R.I.; in several decaying pieces

Musket

Musket

Firearm

Smooth bore flint lock musket; odd club shaped butt; iron furniture (trigger, guard, four barrel bands); wooden three-piece ram rom; from beech plug to 22" barrel is octagonal, at which point there are two double sets of wedding bands from muzzle to 3"; back muzzle is octagonal where there is a single wedding band. Tulip shaped muzzle is typically English, as is the fact that the stock is made of beech.

Oxshoe

Oxshoe

Object/Artifact

Oxen shoe broken in two pieces. Quarter sphere-shaped pieces of metal with thinner section that curves upward and thicker bottom. Pieces of nails are protruding from the oxen shoe.

Peel

Peel

Object/Artifact

Hand-wrought, iron, spade-like implement used to remove loaves of bread from an oven; long rectangular rod handle attached to chipped, rectangular spade with rounded corners

Pipe

Pipe

Object/Artifact

White clay pipe, probably Dutch or English

Porringer

Porringer

Object/Artifact

Porringer colored with white spatter slip on blue ground; reticulated handle with three cutouts (two hearts, one circle).

Scissors

Scissors

Object/Artifact

Pair of hand-wrought iron scissors; two pieces with one circular finger grip remaining

Shingle

Shingle

Object/Artifact

Two shingles from the Delano House in West Duxbury, Massachusetts. Hand-split wood (white pine or cedar) shingles. The lower 6.5 inches (area of the shingle that had been exposed to the weather) is painted white/white washed.

Spike

Spike

Object/Artifact

Hand wrought iron spike with head.