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The Great Fire at Little Ropers Farm
"Finds" from the Dig


A selection of "Finds" which have been recovered from the site

 

Small animal bones
Clay Pipes (Smoking)
Ellimans Embrocation, used for Humans as well as Horses
Coins
Ceramics
Remnats of a dish or bowl
Crockery and Pipes including one marked "Drain"
Pottery
Glassware
Misc items
Hundreds of Nails, presumably those which held up the woodwork,
prior to the fire
Clay Smoking Pipes

Ceramic Jug
Pottery including some fine blue and white china depicting
scenes of early 19th or late 18th century agricultural life and
the motto 'Speed the Plough' on the base.