Kitchen Items

Artifacts in this category include various types of ceramics for serving and preparing food, glass storage containers such as jars and bottles, animal bone representing food remains, and metal utensils and cookingware. Site 44PY181 included a fairly large number (293) of kitchen artifacts from the late nineteenth/early twentieth century.

Both sites yielded larger collections of kitchen items from the 1920s-1930s. The majority of this group consisted of bottles and other glass.

Bottles and a salt shaker (d) from 44PY181. All three bottles were embossed with manufacturers' names. Ceramic fragments from the earlier period at 44PY181. Items a, b, and d are all forms of whiteware, a type of ceramic that began production in the mid-19th century. Item c is a piece of brown stoneware with a broad date range. The small pearlware sherd (e) dates to the early 19th century, perhaps an heirloom piece. Along with the milk and sauce bottles (a, b) are a Ball canning jar and a broken sherbet cup. The large numbers of whole bottles found at both sites reflects the mass production already underway by this time. The upper photo shows two milk bottles from local dairies, a fruit juice bottle, the well-known Coca-Cola bottle, a container for a soft drink called 'Good Grape.' Some of the more complete tableware items include, from left, a tumbler, an ornate cut glass goblet, and a large piece of a whiteware cup.