[40] Henry C. Mercer, "Ancient Carpenters' Tools," Bucks County Historical Society (Doylestown, Pa., 1951), p. 51 and fig. 49. John L. Cotter, "Archeological Excavations at Jamestown, Virginia," U.S. National Park Service Archeological Research Series, no. 4 (Washington, 1958), p. 174, pl. 72 top.
[41] Cotter, no. 1, p. 176, pl. 74 top.
[42] These objects are extremely common on 18th-century sites. Rosewell, p. 224, and fig. 36, no. 8. Tutter's Neck, fig. 16, no. 12.
[43] Mercer, op. cit., p. 295ff.
[44] Two larger examples were found in a cache of metal objects deposited in about 1730 and found on the Challis pottery kiln site in James City County. Two more were encountered in excavations on the Hugh Orr house and blacksmith shop site on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg where they apparently dated from the mid-18th century.
[45] Carl Gustkey, "Sir Francis Wyatt's Horse," The National Horseman (April 1953), [no pagination] fig. 2.
[46] The majority of marked 18th-century hoes excavated in Virginia exhibit rectangular stamps, while postcolonial marks tend to be stamped on the blades rather than the raised spines and without any die edge being impressed.
[47] Louis R. Caywood, "Green Spring Plantation," Archeological Report, Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission (Yorktown: United States National Park Service, 1955), pl. 9 (bottom).
[48] Kenneth E. Kidd, The Excavation of Ste Marie I (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1949), p. 108 and pl. 24b.
[49] See p. [12] for a consideration of the ball's possible significance.