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tncluded <strong>be</strong>er, cider and other alcoholic spine or the inpcdients lo brnv bar (Cell<br />
198265, 173 and 246). These liru indicate that bar. wines andcenain dirtilledalcohal<br />
such 3s quavile were cornmanly shipped to Newfoundland in staved containers <strong>of</strong> many<br />
nzes. Case bouler were also uwd to mrpon such liquors ar gin and bnndy <strong>10</strong> New<br />
England (Fnul<strong>be</strong>r and FaulLner 1987:2321 and likely also Newfoundland.<br />
The discovery <strong>of</strong> $her& fmm at lest two care hltles w the site indicates the presence <strong>of</strong><br />
more refined. dirlilled alcohol m rite. Enough <strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> there bafles was found to<br />
suggest Ir had a capacity <strong>of</strong> 700 ml. The ceramic serving and drinking vesselr similarly<br />
polnf lo alcohol canrumpion within the house and their relative aLwndance suggests that<br />
it was not just the oecupanu who were pmddng. Together with the Tolnes-type bottle<br />
and the Meridajug, cups and goblet. the serving and consumption forms makc up 23% <strong>of</strong><br />
the nan-glarr verrel count fmm the rite. Rter Pop dedicates a chapter <strong>of</strong> his doeroral<br />
dirrenalton to the demand for alcohol and tobacco in the liver <strong>of</strong> the wventecnth-century<br />
South Avalon planter (Pope 1992). He unmvemd doeumentaion indicating that many<br />
Newfoundland planters provided the migntory firhemn with alcohol and rob- in<br />
their awn homes. esrenlially Nming dx hame into a tippling house (Pope 1992:81). A<br />
similar picture is presented in early mlonial Iamcrtown Virginia when a mid-<br />
scvenreenthsentwy visitor to that seulement noled that ea~h <strong>of</strong> the dmn-ar-so families<br />
living rhere operated ordinaieies (tippling houses) (Emam and Homing 1998). The<br />
rignificanr perrentage <strong>of</strong> drinking-relaud vessels from Renews rugpe that UP house