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inexpensive type of ware often used in hotels and restaurants. Hand-painted, shell-edged,transfer-printed, and undecorated Whitewares were recovered from the site (Table 3).White Granite is a plain, undecorated, fully vitrified ware (or refined stoneware)produced beginning in the 1840s and continuing until the 1890s (Figure 40a–b). In the earlydecades heavy, molded geometric shapes with 8, 10 or 12 sides were common, while laterforms are plain, round shapes. In the 1880s this type was not always completely vitrified,resulting in our use of a Whiteware/White Granite category (Miller 1980:5–6). Some waresproduced after 1880 were not vitrified at all, and were similar to the earlier Whitewares,except that the earlier Whitewares were usually decorated and the later ones usually not (seeabove paragraph). Figure 42 shows an example of a plate found at the site in this later (post-White Granite) Whiteware category. It exhibits the later plain rounded style.The different decorative styles also had specific temporal time spans. One of theearliest styles is the shell-edged decoration. This tableware was the least expensiveearthenware with color decoration (Hunter and Miller 1994:443). It was extremely popularand “accounted for more than forty per cent of tablewares sold between 1783 and 1858”(Hunter and Miller 1994:441). The style was found mainly on plate forms, and consisted of acolored rim (usually blue or green) with a plain, undecorated center.This style spanned the era from 1780 to 1860, but more exact dating is possible by“tracing the evolution of the rim shapes” (Hunter and Miller 1994:437). The earliest formwas “an asymmetrical, undulating scallop with impressed curved lines” (Figure 43e, i), whichdates from 1775 to 1810. These edges could be colored blue, green, brown, purple, red, orblack (blue and green colors were found on the site). This was followed by an evensymmetrical scalloped edge with straight or curved impressed lines between about 1810 and1835 (Figure 43f, j). These were generally colored blue or green, and were almostexclusively Pearlware. By the 1830s the style was being used with Whitewares and thescalloped rim was eliminated in favor of an even rim with impressed lines, and was almostalways colored blue. This style was popular until around 1860 (Figure 43a–b). After 1860the shell-edge style generally fell out of favor, but some wares were produced until the 1890swith an even edge and painted lines instead of impressed ones (Hunter and Miller 1994:437).The shell-edged wares recovered from the Pettigrew site were all Pearlware orWhiteware. They made up at least about 3.5% of the entire ceramic assemblage (Table 3),but the percentage is probably much higher considering the small size of the sherdsrecovered, and the fact that only the rim sherds can be identified as this style. SincePearlware was almost never undecorated, it is likely that virtually all of the undecoratedPearlware sherds recovered from the site are part of the shell-edged wares. Only two of the241 undecorated Pearlware sherds belonging to the Dining group were rim sherds; the restwere body or base sherds of flatware (plates and platter) forms. It is also likely that asubstantial portion of the undecorated whiteware sherds belonged to the shell-edged vessels,but some of the undecorated Whiteware belongs to the post-1880 era. Among the shelledgedrims recovered, the proportion of Pearlware to Whiteware was 77% to 23%. If we addthe undecorated Pearlware (239 sherds) to the shell-edged rims and add a correspondingamount of the undecorated whiteware also (55 sherds), the shell-edge wares conceivablycould make up 16% of the total ceramic assemblage sherd count, the next biggest categoryafter the undecorated refined wares (which would be correspondingly reduced from 62% to40