From Storage to Refuse: Using Site Formation to Distinguish “Goods” from “ye Provisions” in the St. Paul’s Parsonage Cellar
摘要
Between 1707 and 1715 the St. Paul’s parsonage served as a residence for the Anglican missionaries assigned to the parish. Household provisions were stored in a brick-lined cellar below the house until it was destroyed by fire in July of 1715. This fire began the cellar’s functional transformation from storage to refuse pit. Here we use the artifacts and faunal materials recovered during archaeological excavations of the cellar and its stratigraphy, in conjunction with a few surviving letters chronicling some of the events that took place in 1715, to reconstruct the events that contributed to the formation of the archaeological deposits within the cellar.