The Middleton Place Privy House / An Archeological View of Nineteenth Century Plantation Life

by Helen Haskell

THE MIDDLETON PLACE PRIVY HOUSE
AN ARCHEOLOGICAL VIEW OF NINETEENTH CENTURY PLANTATION LIFE

Helen Woolford Haskell

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
INSTITUTE OF ARCHEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
POPULAR SERIES 1

Columbia, South Carolina

September, 1981

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page [List of Figures] iv [Acknowledgments] vi [A brief history of Middleton Place] 1 [Archeology at Middleton Place] 8 [Pottery and porcelain] 12 [Glass tableware] 24 [Glass manufacture in the United States] 29 [Medicine Bottles] 34 [Wine and spirits bottles] 39 [Beer bottles] 40 [South Carolina dispensary bottles] 43 [Food containers] 45 [Bottles made after 1900] 47 [Lamp glass] 49 [Laboratory glass] 52 [Conclusions] 54 [Appendix I—Ceramic manufacturer’s marks] 56 [Appendix II—Significant dates in the American Glass Industry] 58 [Appendix III—Marks left by different techniques of bottle manufacture] 62 [Appendix IV—Artifact catalogue from the Middleton Place privy excavation] 64 [Bibliography] 73

LIST OF FIGURES

Page [FIGURE 1: Locator map of Middleton Place] 3 [FIGURE 2: British-made white ironstone or granite china, 1891-1900] 13 [FIGURE 3: Chinese export porcelain] 14 [FIGURE 4: French Bourbon Sprig or Cornflower porcelain] 15 [FIGURE 5: English porcelain platter] 16 [FIGURE 6: Creamware sauce tureen] 17 [FIGURE 7: Light blue transfer-printed serving bowl] 19 [FIGURE 8: Molded white ironstone chamber pot] 19 [FIGURE 9: English majolica] 21 [FIGURE 10: Limoges porcelain] 22 [FIGURE 11: Decal-printed Austrian porcelain] 23 [FIGURE 12: Cut glass pitcher] 25 [FIGURE 13: Cut glass decanters] 26 [FIGURE 14: Stemmed drinking glasses] 27 [FIGURE 15: Ale flute and mascotte wine glass] 27 [FIGURE 16: Bottle shapes from the Middleton Place privy] 32 [FIGURE 17: Pharmacy bottles] 34 [FIGURE 18: Patent medicine bottles] 36 [FIGURE 19: Apothecary’s vials] 38 [FIGURE 20: Wine and spirits bottles] 40 [FIGURE 21: Beer bottles] 41 [FIGURE 22: South Carolina Dispensary bottles] 44 [FIGURE 23: Preserve jar and olive oil bottle] 46 [FIGURE 24: Armor beef extract jar] 47 [FIGURE 25: Twentieth century bottles] 48 [FIGURE 26: Student lamp chimney] 50 [FIGURE 27: Kerosene student and piano lamp] 51 [FIGURE 28: “Pearl top” and crimped lamp chimneys] 51 [FIGURE 29: Free-blown laboratory beaker] 52 [FIGURE 30: Conservation of artifacts] 55