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Dan,
We had a dig on the site of a hothouse at the Uniacke Estate
in 1992 from which we recovered just over 10,000 flower pot sherds. A
minimum vessel count showed the remains to be from at least 21 pots,
or 19% of the flowerpots listed in the hothouse inventory done after
Richard John Uniacke's death in 1830. The estate was built between
1813 and 1815, but there is no record of the hothouse's construction.
We are quite certain that it was no longer in use after 1830. I also
had very little to go on in the investigation of the flower pots,
although two of the best references I had were: Pierre Beaudet's
"Under the Boardwalk in Quebec City" (MInister of Supply and
Services Canada, Ottawa, 1990); and, Lynne Sussman's "Flowerpots and
Jardinieres in 18th- and 19th-Century Settings: A Resource Book" (MS,
1992). Lynne Sussman's address is: Archaeological Research, Canadian
Parks Service, 1600 Liverpool Court, Ottawa, Ont., K1A 0H3.
If you'd like a copy of the Uniacke Estate report just let me know.
Laird Niven.
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