ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES
A few artifacts that have been recovered are associated with millers,
drapers, basketmakers, cutlers, tailors, barbers, netmakers, and
glovers. These tradesmen usually worked in or near their homes.
[Illustration: EARTHENWARE MILK PAN, BRASS LADLE, FUNNEL FRAGMENT, AND
OTHER ITEMS FOUND WHICH RELATE TO DAIRYING AND CHEESEMAKING.]
[Illustration: BAKING BREAD IN AN OUTDOOR BAKING OVEN ABOUT 1650.
(Conjectural sketch by Sidney E. King.)]
[Illustration: IN THIS OVEN A JAMESTOWN WOMAN BAKED BREAD OVER 300 YEARS
AGO. IT APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN IN USE BETWEEN 1650 AND 1690.]
[Illustration: JAMESTOWN SOLDIERS CARRYING POLEARMS (A HALBERD AND A
BILL). (Conjectural sketch by Sidney E. King.)]
Military Equipment
The vast assemblage of military equipment that has been unearthed
(probably the largest collection of late 16th-and 17th-century English
weapons used in America) emphasizes the important part which firearms
and other weapons played during the early years of the settlement. They
helped the colonists to protect themselves from the ever-menacing Indian
and from the Spaniards who might at anytime have sailed up the James
River to attack the small colony. They were also the means of providing
the settlers with much of their food.
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