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NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 3.2
with a particular concentration in site F. Several bore a rosette in relief. One was virtually complete (Fig. 7) and bore the letters EB as a heel mark. Recent excavations at Fort Orange, Albany, New York, have found this mark to be the one which appears most frequently in mid-17th century contexts.
Drawing slates. Parts of several circular drawing slates have been found, in several of the excavation sites. In addition, a complete tapered slate pencil was found in site B. It is 0.15 m long, and even the tip has survived undamaged.
d. Cargo
Glass bottles. Fragments of green bottle glass were common all over the site. Several substantially complete bases were recovered, most of them 0.112 m square. However, there was a group from site D which were smaller, with base sides only 0.08 m long. Some of this glass is very decomposed, and some of it is in perfect condition; despite very close observations on the contexts in which the glass was buried, we were unable to identify any possible factors which could account for this difference in the condition of the glass. We are driven to suggest, although even this theory presents grave difficulties, that it might be something in the composition of the glass which is the relevant variable.
Bellarmine JEagons. One further complete Bellarniine flagon was recovered this year (Fig. 8), in addition to the three raised in
1971 (Forster & Higgs, 1973: 297-8). It was found in site F, and contained peach stones. Furthermore, a complete small pot, only 0.11 m high, was found just south of site F. It was of exactly the same design, texture and glaze as the standard Bellarmine type, but was without a mask or medallions. There were also many hundreds of sherds of Bellarmine pottery, and several dozen reason- ably complete masks and medallions; work is still in progress on sorting these out. One piece from site E was unusual in having a blue glaze.
Other pottery. There were large quantities of other pottery, much of it of indeterminate age and provenance, and some of it certainly
Figure 8. Bellarmine flagon.
modern. From the southern end of site A came a number of pieces of thick, dark-olive glazed pottery. It is fairly certain that these pieces came from a large storagejar, of a type similar to that found at the Mewstone Ledge site (Ashdown, 1972). A complete dark- brown earthenware pipkin (Fig. 9) was found in site F, along with several fragments of similar vessels in red and yellow.
Other items of cargo. Before concluding this section, mention should be made of the other items of cargo of which we recovered some evidence. We have already noted the special factors which resulted in the carriage of large quantities of Overijsselsde Steen. Other items in the cargo were represented by the considerable quantities of rosin and mercury which was scattered over large parts of the site. A curious find involved the concretion in site C, which consisted almost entirely of wooden rods, of the dimensions
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