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Items likely associated with the fraternity house consist of shaving creme jars,shampoo bottles, and pharmaceutical bottles, including an early Listerine bottle, and acondom case.The toothbrushes and possible toothpaste tubes are difficult to date. Some are surelyrelated to the fraternity house, while some of the bone toothbrushes appear to date to anearlier context.MISCELLANEOUS METAL GROUPThe Miscellaneous Metal group includes a large amount of unidentified metal andvarious pieces of metal hardware. Eight iron hooks of various sizes, ranging from smallutility hooks to a large heavy hook probably used with a pulley, were recovered. Two irondoor or cabinet handles and four hinges also were found. These metal items came mostlyfrom Level 2 in the southern part of the site, north of the “Poor House,” and from Level 4 inthe northern part of the site, although three of the hooks, including the pulley hook, werefound in Level 1. An ornamental piece of iron in a scroll design also from Level 4 in thenorthern part of the site (Figure 35b). It is likely that many of these metal artifacts relate tothe outbuildings of the Hotel, while some may have been associated with earlier contextssuch as the “Poor House” and Jones Watson’s residence.INTERPRETATIONSThe historic artifacts recovered from the Pettigrew site excavations show evidence forcontinuous occupation of the site from the late eighteenth century through the early twentiethcentury. We do not know much about trash disposal on the site because no trash dumps orprivies were located. The artifacts recovered are mixed throughout the site’s strata, butdatable categories of artifacts show that older artifacts occur in higher percentages in Levels 3and 4, while more recent artifacts are more prevalent in Levels 1 and 2 (Tables 7, 9, 10, 14and 16). Eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century artifacts were found most heavilyin Level 4, and often were beneath the “Poor House” structure. Artifacts definitely related tothe Roberson Hotel/Central Hotel period, such as Whiteware bakers and toilet wares, andpharmaceutical bottles, were found in Levels 1 and 2, in both the northern and southernhalves of the site. Artifacts relating to the fraternity house also were confined to Levels 1 and2, but occurred around the perimeter of the fraternity house structure, instead of being evenlyspread over the site. Those artifacts which date to the “Poor House” era and the post-CivilWar period were spread throughout Levels 2, 3 and 4.Kitchen and dining ceramics belonging to the late eighteenth century and earlytwentieth century were well-represented at the site, and items relating to food storage andtablewares were recovered. Tablewares were of the more expensive kinds (i.e., decoratedand tea wares), and they show that the owners of the lot were fairly well off (despite periodsof bankruptcy). The assemblage of this period may relate to the residence of the owners andalso reflect some breakage of store stock. Processing of meat seems to have taken place onthe southern end of the lot during this period.57