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County at the behest of the Maryland govern- ment. Materials recovered from Heater’s Island stand in contrast to those at Zekiah Fort. Euro- pean-made ceramics predominate over contem- porary Potomac Creek wares, which are found in far fewer numbers.85 It appears those at Heater’s Island were also curating European ceramics from decades before, such as Morgan Jones, a locally made ware usually found in 1670s con- texts in southern Maryland. Like Zekiah Fort and Choptico, white clay pipes also outnumber locally-made pipes. The adoption of predom- inantly European material is preceded by the frequent disruption and relocation of the Piscat- away by the English. Displacement so far upriv- er removed the Piscataway from their traditional clay sources, possibly leading to the adoption of European materials in their stead.
TABLE 9
Artifacts recovered from test units, Zekiah Fort.
Artifact Type
Count
figure 34
Morgan Jones ceramic from Heater’s Island.
Lithic flake/shatter, native stone 173 Projectile point/tool, native stone 9 Other stone fragment 4 European flint debitage 386 Gunflint 19 Ochre 2 Fire-cracked rock 128 Total Stone 721 Potomac Creek 277 Moyaone 74 Yeocomico 11 Camden 3 Townsend 3 Colonoware 3 UID wares 106 Total Native Ceramics 477 Colonial earthenwares 99 Colonial stonewares 17 Miscellaneous post-colonial 17 Total European Ceramics 133 Tobacco pipe, terra cotta 160 Tobacco pipe, white clay 428 Total Tobacco Pipes 588 Glass bead 289 Glass button 2 Bottle glass, colonial 148 Bottle glass, modern 26 Total Glass 465 Copper alloy objects 66 Lead/pewter objects 63 Silver objects 1 Iron nails 287 Iron objects (other than nails) 342 Total Metal 759
figure 35
Quartz Potomac-type point from Zekiah Fort.
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