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Figure50. ThenewWaterpoortbuiltinthe18thcenturytoreplacetheoriginal(deHun.1922:K9).
Bricks
About 8,000 small building bricks were recovered from the wreck site and the inside roof area. The bricks varied
in colour, ranging in throo basic types: a pale yellow, a pink-brown and a grey. Within the three groups there was considerable variation in the colour range and in some cases the body of the bricks had a mb,ture of the throo colours, as if the clay had not been properly mixed. The size of the bricks averaged 182 ± 5 mm long by 84 ± 3 mm wide by 37 ± 1 mm thick. These measurements are slightly larger than the bricks recovered from the Vergulde Draeck wreck sitewherethesamedimensionswere176mmby76mmby34mm.TheVerguldeDraeck brickswereaUoftheyellow- bodied type and were tentatively identified aslJselsleen or Goudsesleen. Large quantities ofbricks were sent each year to the Indies. In 1653,300,000 bricks were requested and these orders included Vries c/ijnken, grauwe leijls moppen, leijls c/ijne grauwe c/ijnken and Goulse C/ijnkerl. The bricks made an excellent paying ballast and would, no doubt, have boon used in the various building programmes taking place in Batavia during this period.
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