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fall. winter and spring mm&. Subrisimee hunting war morded in Reww m the md-
seventeenth century, with the abvndanm of wildlife in the region king something that an
English yeoman may have found foreign. Hunting, particularly for large gme would
have been a partime that the y eom planter may not have enjoyed back in England ar it
wa comideced the realmof the gentry class. However. in Newfoundland. as in all of the
New World. il war a necessary means of supplementing th. waditianal diet Lead
propcdles ranging fmm tiny pellets to buekrhm and musket and pistol balls were present
throughout the accupation deposits. Sprue fmm the carung of buekshot was also found.
dding to the list of twls and equipment the planter was *lo to manufacrum. A handful
ofcalelned and splintered mammal boner fragments war alx, found. although no species
idenlificaion was possible.
Lastly. the anifst collection tells of a world that was not as homagenews ar one might
expect for s rmdl harbour some 2m0 kiiomems fmm Eump and isolated for over one-
half the year. Ceramic vessels. pewter tableware and aelay tobacco pipe fmm Spain,
Holland and the Cherapake Bay m a of Tidewater Virginia and Maryland tell of the
wide trade network avlilable to the Renews planter. As salted cod fish, caught in the
waters off Renews. was an important commodity in lk he-As-Atlantic mde, it is not
surprising that gwdr and pmduce fmm the cwnvies involved in this uade sbould Nm up
in the home of the person who was no less a parmerin that wan-wide emnomy. The
planter's role in this Vade n ewd enabled him and his family ta partalrc in some of&