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8.2.81 Other Structural Items
(photograph 47a &c)
Item 41 is a brass keyhole escutcheon, and item 274 a strip of sheet lead
14mm wide which has been twisted to reduce it's length and pierced at
one end. Item 274 is probably a counter-weight, and having regard to its'
dimensions, may have been fashioned locally as a substitute for the
counterweight of a casement window.
8.2.8m Medicinal
(photograph 47b & d)
Two glass items from Chinaman's Garden Well, apart from those already
described in other groupings, are associated with medicines or
pharmaceutical preparations.
Item 103 is the lower part of a ground glass stopper, such as used to close
an apothecaries or acid jar. The finish is far superior to that on, for
example, the stopper from a lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce bottle.
Item 236 is a Chinese shear-top straight-sided medicine vial of the style
also found at Chinaman's Well, and reported at other sites by Ritchie
(1986) , McCarthy (1986) and in Wegars( 1993). This item is almost
complete, and is 52mm high.
8.2.80 Other Items
(photograph 48)
Item 164, originally classified as hollow-ware is quite different from the rest.
It is a quite small piece of porcelain, which has been hand-painted on the
outside only. Colours of green, pink, yellow, tan, and black are
represented, and the motif appears to have been of blossoms. There is
also some evidence that gilt was included in the decoration. The
impression is of Quing dynasty polychrome porcelain (Valenstein,
1989:plates 38, 39), possibly from a wine cup..
Item 288 is a piece from the rim of a celadon-ware vessel. The rim has an
outside diameter of 60mm, and probably comes from a vase or small pot.