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