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hundreds of English familres (plantea) tha chase to live in Newfoundland during the
seventeenth century.
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Various segments of this thesis will focus on the material evidence fmm a single planter's
household - the type of dwelling inhabited and the varieties and availability of eenmie
rrble and slange wmr. The extstem of numemur clay tobacco plpS from the rite
rhowr that smoking played aedirigfieanr mlc ineveryday life. Most oftheanifme fmm
the rile were typical for rhe time. They reflect a reliance on stored fodrtuffr and sturdy
cooking wms. Othea show the degree of roc~al ztivity that occumd in the horn.
Inferences on economic sraur and uuL Ntworkr arc maled thmugh the anifacts u
well. The patem of refuse dirpmJllells romnhing of the accepted behavioud
chwactetinicr of the time. Such a n-w 'Window" into tbc part is rarely obtmnable in
the archaeological or historical wnw.
The archiremural remains m a study unto tbcmnelves. It is one of the earliest English-
built dwellings uncovered in Canada to date. The suucrud evidence spakr of
avvllabilily of valued iron nails and the ingenuity of the builder/occupant. In wved
wayr !he house conforms with what is ham as uadilional techniques and rtandds
while in other wayr it depans fmm Ute rune. Although not all of the physical elemem
are preserved, the archaeological record daer reveal ~ v edetails d previously unknown
in early colonial Newfoundland architecture.