Don and other histarchers:

    Pea-sized earthenware beads were recovered from the Dark Moon and Minisink
sites in Sussex County, New Jersey.  There is a brief article on them in the
1983 Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey (39:11).  The authors
were Warren Hartzell and F. Dayton Staats.  Radiocarbon dating of associated
charred wood associated with the beads yielded a date of 570 +/- 55 years B.P.

Best,

Rich Veit

Don Linebaugh wrote:

> During recent excavations of a ca. 1675-1680 post-in-ground dwelling house
> at Kippax Plantation in Prince George County, VA, we have recovered a small
> ceramic bead. The site is known for its glass trade beads (about 10,000
> excavated to date); it was home to Robert Bolling, a merchant/trader. The
> ceramic bead is round (about size of pea), made of local clay, and is low
> fired. In shape and size it resembles many of the glass beads recovered
> from the site. Given its local manufacture it also resembles and might be
> called a "colonoware" bead (we do have a great deal of colonoware from the
> site as well). So, my question - has anyone else excavated this type of
> bead at East coast sites (or elsewhere). I am not aware of any, and wanted
> to see if anyone could help with other examples. I would appreciate any
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> Thanks in advance for your help.
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