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below. By the mid-$evcnreenth mlw. individual ceramic drinking cup were well
ensconced into the ysoman'r culinary habits. having been introduced acennrryearlier
rhmugh increased trade and immigration fmm the Cantinent. e~pcially the Netherlands
(Brearr 1971: 13.27). Several different cup forms were found. the most mmmon being a
globular body with a straight rim equal lo one-half the height af the M y . The stem from
a pewter goblet eonrtiruler .eleventh drinking vesul. Pewter tableware and emhenware
proliferated in the English commoner's home beginning in the sixteenth century. but it
still shared the table with vervlr and wenchers (plates) made from wmd (Andeman
1971:238). The highincidence dccnmic drinking vessels hum Renews fits well with
riles of a nmtlar age and cultwe elcavared in New England(Deeu 197229)
There was n notable *em of other dairy-related ceramic fomu on the site. One of the
processes in ding butter war allowing fresh mw's milk to sit and clot in largc open
ceramic milk pans in zeool pan of Ihe house. preferably in an mom vt aside for just thd
purpose. 'k absence of milk pvls fmm lhir rite, together with the prepondenncc of
butter storage containen suggests that dirying was not an aslivity prsticed at this site
which is unusual considering that dairying was a regular xtivily at many Nmh Devon
homca (Gmt 198354). Fragments hom numemus milk pans were movered from
reveaeenth-cenmry deposits 81 the xvenreenthantury Colony of Avalon in Fenyland
where a cowhoux or byre war among the buildings uneovcd along the waterfmnt
(Gaulton 1998:l6l7). As lhm b noevidence ofdaixying st the Rmsws sile. the butter