Dug a colonial pit at gold ring site

[crabstang44]

Mostly full of oyster shells and bones but did find these pipe bowls and most the pieces to this awesome mug, how old the mug you think? Beer mug?

 

[trapperart]

Congrats

 

[joeyfresh]

it looks like a rhenish blue and gray salt glazed stoneware tankard. Could date to the 1700s. Nice

 

[dirtlooter]

love the history, if those could only talk

 

[Pacivilwarluke]

Killer, rheinish stoneware tankard about mid 1700s or so. Not too many of those recovered, astounding! The pipe marked TD likely stands for Thomas Dormer, a pipemaker in london during the 18th century. Here is a similar one I recovered from a pit in South Carolina. It is marked 4 which means it held a quart.

 

[crabstang44]

Killer, rheinish stoneware tankard about mid 1700s or so. Not too many of those recovered, astounding! The pipe marked TD likely stands for Thomas Dormer, a pipemaker in london during the 18th century. Here is a similar one I recovered from a pit in South Carolina. It is marked 4 which means it held a quart.

oh, thats a nice mug too. going back in the morning to try and find the rest of the pieces

 

[gwdigger]

Thats awesome!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Cool mug preservation and very nice clay pipes!

 

[DownNDirty]

Great job with the reconstruction-good luck & I hope you find more of it. Keep digging that pit

 

[Scrappy]

That's a beauty. I have a handle piece to one....

Congrys

 

[relicmeister]

Awesome to see a colonial mug (tankard) so cool

 

[villagenut]

I like finds like these more than coins. But that's just me I reckon. Thanks for conserving it and sharing it.

 

[CRUSADER]

Agreed with others looks German, I would have guessed late 18th C. Ask Westfront.

 

[Silvermonkey]

That mug is wonderful. Congratulations!

 

[tamrock]

That's really a neat find. I live on the front range of Colorado and only find late 19th and​ early 20th century stuff from the former inhabitants of my community. Though I did find a site of native Americans near by which far exceeds the written history of my area, but one early Anglo piece I found was a clay pipe stem and that has me wondering how old it could be?

 

[Stef45]

I can read these pit posts all day! Congrats. Hope you find even more

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Great job on that stoneware reconstruction! What you have there is a 1/2 pint mug, and if it had a capacity mark on the body near the handle it would be an "8". That checkerboard style generally dated to the 1750 to 1775 period. That's also the exact same time frame when Thomas Dormer of London was making pipes (1748-1770). It features an interesting incised mark since it's located on the back of the bowl which is uncommon (in my experience), plus I'm unsure what the "2" represents. I'll have to check that out later Definitely a very cool late 18th century marked bowl.

 

[crabstang44]

Great job on that stoneware reconstruction! What you have there is a 1/2 pint mug, and if it had a capacity mark on the body near the handle it would be an "8". That checkerboard style generally dated to the 1750 to 1775 period. That's also the exact same time frame when Thomas Dormer of London was making pipes (1748-1770). It features an interesting incised mark since it's located on the back of the bowl which is uncommon (in my experience), plus I'm unsure what the "2" represents. I'll have to check that out later Definitely a very cool late 18th century marked bowl.

Thank you sir for the info, found 2 more pieces to the mug this morning, is more pipe pieces, only missing a few small pieces and a medium piece now