Northeast Historical Archaeology Volume 34 From the Netherlands to New Netherland: The Archaeology of the Dutch in the Old and New Article 7 Worlds 2005 An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Sources on theArchaeology of Old World Dutch Material Culture in the16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries Paul R. Huey Follow this and additional works at: http://orb.binghamton.edu/neha Part of the Archaeological Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation Huey, Paul R. (2005) "An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Sources on theArchaeology of Old World Dutch Material Culture in the16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries," Northeast Historical Archaeology: Vol. 34 34, Article 7. https://doi.org/10.22191/neha/vol19/iss1/7 Available at: http://orb.binghamton.edu/neha/vol34/iss1/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB). It has been accepted for inclusion in Northeast Historical Archaeology by an authorized editor of The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB). For more information, please contact [email protected]. Northeast Historical Archaeology/Vol. 34, 2005 119 An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Sources on the Archaeology of Old World Dutch Material Culture in the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries PaulK Huey Anyone analyzing the results of archaeo­ Michiel H. Bartels, Janny Venema, Charles logical excavations in colonial Dutch sites, Gehring, Joseph M. Thatcher, Joseph E. whether they are in Africa, North America, the McEvoy, Robert S. Neyland, John McCashion, Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, or any other Charlotte Wilcoxen, James Bradley, Joseph area colonized by the Dutch in the 16th, 17th, Diamond, Alexandra van Dongen, Barnes & or 18th centuries, will require a basic reference Noble Booksellers of Albany, New York, the library of sources documenting the results of David Brown Book Company of Oakville, excavations of sites from the same period in Connecticut, and McIntyre and Moore, the Netherlands. The following bibliography Booksellers, formerly of Cambridge; lists and describes some of the many sources Massachusetts, for their assistance and sup­ that relate to the archaeology of the port. Netherlands of the 16th, 17th, and 18th cen­ turies; wrecks of Dutch ships of this period en Ahlstrom, Christian route to or from the Netherlands are also 2003 The Vrouw Maria of 1771-An Example of included. The abstracts reflect only the content Documentary Research. In The Marine Archaeology of the Baltic Sea Area, Volume 3, of the sources that relates to excavations in the 2000, ed. by Carl Olof Cederlund. Sodertorns Netherlands or of Dutch vessels sailing to or hogskola, Huddinge, Sweden. <http:/ / from the Netherlands, and the abstracts are www.abc.se/-m10354/publ/vr_maria.htm>. free of editorializing or correction (except The Baltic Sea is a unique resource for the archaeolo­ where indicated in brackets). The term gist because of its low salinity and because of the thorough Sound Registers maintained by Denmark, "Bellarmine," however, has been consistently an almost complete record of shipping from 1490 used instead of "bartmann." Every effort has through 1856. One ship recorded in the registers was been made to summarize accurately in English the Vrouw Maria, which sailed from Amsterdam in the relevent contents of the items that are 1771. It carried a shipment of merchandise and art written in Dutch, and this compiler apologizes treasures to be delivered in St. Petersburg. The art treasures included "numerous crates of paintings" for any errors or misinterpretations that may purchased from a Dutch art collector by the Russian have occurred. Empress, Catherine the Great, for her own collec­ This bibliography was initially prepared tion. Unfortunately, the ship was damaged by for the Dutch-American Material Culture storms and sank near the islands of southwestern Finland. The wreck was discovered in 1999 and was Workshop sponsored by the Council for found to be filled to capacity with crates, barrels, Northeast Historical Archaeology for its 1996 and boxes in the hold. So little space between the Annual Conference, October 18, 1996. It is a cargo and the deck above makes it nearly impossible very incomplete bibliography and represents to enter the ship or unload any of the cargo. The first only a sampling of the extensive literature that artifacts to be retrieved included an 18th-century Gouda clay pipe, an ingot of zinc metal, and a wax is steadily growing. Many of the reports are seal with the initials of a Leiden textile manufac­ publications of The Foundation for the turer. The cargo hold in the bow of the ship contains Promotion of Archaeology (SPA), and they are piles of clay pipes. available for purchase from Stichting Promotie Archaeologie (SPA), Lijnbaan 103, 8011 AP Anderson, Arne Bang Zwolle, the Netherlands, phone NL-038- 1974 A Dutch Galliot Which Struck a Rock in 1677. The International Journal of Nautical 4212299. The compiler is indebted to many Archaeology and Underwater Exploration 3 (1): people for their patient help with this project. 91-100. Special thanks go to Jan M. Baart, Eric Nooter, In 1969 the excavation of the ship, wrecked off the 120 Dutch Material Culture Bibliography/Huey coast of Norway, was started. The wreck contained In 2003 demolition and new development prompted an amazing quantity of ceramics and clay pipes. The archaeological investigation on the Konijnstraat, ceramics include Bellarmine jugs and earthenware located in the middle of the Jordaan between the skillets, pipkins, and bowls, all illustrated. There are Elandsstraat and the Lauriergracht. This area also North Holland slipware bowls and blue and became part of the city in the beginning of the 17th polychrome decorated faience plates. The clay pipes century, starting about 1612. The Jordaan became a have various marks. new district between the Prinsengracht and the Lijnbaangracht. This had been a polder area, and the Anonymous later ditches and streets of the Jordaan followed the n.d. Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum: pattern of long linear strips of meadow ground and Provisional Catalogue of Exhibits With farmland. Maps indicate that the excavations were Descriptive Notes. Nederlandsch Historisch conducted in a field named the Margrietenpad. It Scheepvaart Museum, Amsterdam. was bounded at the north by the Hospital, or Saint A piece of eight on exhibit was recovered in 1962 Pieterssloot, and on the south by the Sint from the wreck of the Vergulde Draeck, sunk in 1655. Margrietensloot. In the middle of the excavation site, This coarse piece of eight, representing eight pesos at Numbers 11 and 13 Konijnenstraat and half way worth of silver, was the most common coinage in between the Elandsstraat and the Lauriergracht, a world trade. ditch was found, shown on maps as the Hospital ditch that marked the north border of the 1999 Discoveries: Crates May Hold Art Trove. Margrietenpad. In the bottom of the ditch, artifacts Immersed 4 (4): 8. were found from the end of the 16th century. The lot Divers believe they have found the wreck of the separations appeared packed with sand and wood Dutch merchant vessel Vrouw Maria, sunk in 1771, branches presumably to fill the area during the city near Jurmo Island southwest of Finland. The ship, expansion of 1612. In the ditch, remains of a single en route to St. Petersburg, was carrying a cargo for goat's hom and a bull skull were found with butcher Catherine the Great, believed to consist of art works waste. At the south side of the ditch lay a sizable from the estate of Gerret Braamcamps, a prominent deposit of leather waste. These remains provide a Dutch collector. Officially coffee and sugar were connection with past activities here, a location listed as the only cargo on the 82-foot vessel, but the known for the establishments of leatherworkers and high intensity of diplomatic correspondence skin merchants. Besides the Konijnenstraat are other regarding the ship suggests otherwise. Under reminiscent street names, such as Hazen-, Beren-, Finnish law, the ship and its contents belong to Wolven- and Huidenstraat. Significantly, the only Finland. archaeological traces of leather working date from the pre-city phase, and evidence from the 17th and 2003 Westerseweg 2: Onbekend steenhuis ontdekt. 18th centuries is missing. Illustrates artifacts from July. Stichting Monument & Materiaal, Privy 5, dating 1600 to 1660. Behind the houses built Westerbinnensingel 48, 9718 BV after 1612 six privies were found. Most trash pits Groningen.<http://www.stichtingmenrn.nI dated from the early phase of the occupation (1615 I explorer / earcheo I earcheoframes.htrn>. to 1640). From the excavated material it appears that Excavations at Westerseweg 2 in Groningen revealed the first inhabitants of the Konijnenstraat enjoyed evidence of a brick house. There was a clay-filled reasonably good health. One privy served a number trench on which masonry once stood. The brick of houses. Possibly these inhabitants used the two house was built probably in the 13th century and privies behind Number 7 Konijnenstraat. With these measured presumably 10 by 7 m overall. It would privies were also three cisterns in a simple wooden have had two floors above a cellar. It stood, with building, forming a collective bathroom, a rare phe­ barns and outbuildings, surrounded by a double nomenon in Amsterdam. Written in Dutch. ditch. In the 16th century, the brick house was replaced by a so-called Groningen Long House, a 2004 Opgraving bij Huis FrankendaeL February 6. long farmhouse with the roof projecting above the Bureau Monumenten en Archeologie, barn. The foundation trench of this farmhouse was Amsterdam. <http://www.bmz.ams­ found filled the with demolition rubble of the brick terdam.nl/ adam/nll archeologie/ frank­ house. The third farmhouse on the spot was built in endael.htrnl> . 1857. Written in Dutch. In 2003 remains of an old wall were discovered in the garden of the Frankendael country seat at the 2003 Opgraving in de Konijnenstraat.