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Category Archives: Material culture
A tale of two buttons and some supernatural events
I’ve been cataloguing buttons from Baker’s Flat. The ones in the picture below are known as trouser buttons (suspender buttons if you’re in the US) and were used mainly on work trousers and shirts. These four hole, sew through buttons … Continue reading
Fizzy drinks, the Codd patent bottle and some experimental archaeology
When aerated mineral water drinks were first manufactured way back in the eighteenth century, they were stored in stoneware bottles. But the gas often escaped, the fizz disappeared and the drinks became flat. When glass bottles were used, a different … Continue reading
Posted in Material culture, Research, hmmm, South Australia
Tagged australia, Codd bottles, fizzy drinks, glass, Material culture
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We’re building a wall and adding a foundation deposit
So, we like gardening, although we’re often neglectful and the plants that thrive do so because they’re hardy. This weekend’s project, in which I played a minor role, was to build a three-course curved wall around the fence that holds … Continue reading
Posted in Excavation, Folk traditions, Foundation deposits, Ireland, Irishness, Material culture, South Australia
Tagged building a wall, City to Bay 2018, Foundation deposits, Irishness, medals
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Christmas jigsaw puzzle of the ceramic variety
Christmas is an excellent time for jigsaw puzzles. One of my longtime favourite novelists, Margaret Drabble, asserts that ‘jigsaws are a joy at Christmas, the ideal gift, the perfect employment’. Further, she says, they ‘give you an illusion of order and progress when … Continue reading
Posted in Baker's Flat, Cataloguing, Material culture, Research, hmmm
Tagged Baker's Flat, cataloguing, ceramic, jigsaw puzzles, Rhine
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Unearthed: an exhibition inspired by Baker’s Flat
Unearthed is an exhibition of paintings by Lynn Mack, inspired by some of the ceramic and glass artefacts excavated at Baker’s Flat. It’s part of South Australia’s History Festival, and you can find it at the entrance to the Central Library at Flinders University. … Continue reading
Posted in Art and archaeology, Baker's Flat, Material culture, Migration, South Australia
Tagged archaeology, art, Baker's Flat, Flinders University, Lynn Mack, paintings, Unearthed
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