Historical Archaeology in Wachovia

1. Excavating Eighteenth-Century Bethabara

   1. Stabilizing the Ruins

      Pages 153-160

   2. Historic Site Development

      Pages 161-176

   3. Processing the Artifacts

      Pages 177-184

2. The Moravian Pottery

   1. The Master Potter Gottfried Aust

      Pages 187-192

   2. Archaeology at Gottfried Aust’s Pottery Shop at Bethabara

      Pages 193-212

   3. Pottery Types Made by Gottfried Aust at Bethabara, 1755–1771

      Pages 213-218

   4. Pottery Forms Made by Gottfried Aust at Bethabara, 1755–1771

      Pages 219-268

   5. The Master Potter Rudolph Christ

      Pages 269-280

   6. Archaeology: The 1966 Excavation of the Christ-mause Kiln Waster Dump in Bethabara

      Pages 281-320

   7. A “Fayance” Sherd Is Discovered in Salem

      Pages 321-326

   8. The Search for “Fayance” and the “Fine Pottery” of Christ on Lot 49 in Old Salem

      Pages 327-366

   9. Postscript: South Carolina Creamware (1975)

      Pages 367-369

3. Back Matter

   Pages 372-442

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Originally distributed with a different title as a very limited edition of twelve in 1975, Historical Archaeology in Wachovia presents a unique record of the 1753 Moravian town of Bethabara, near Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Stanley South, who led the site's excavation in 1966, fully describes such discoveries as fortifications from the French and Indian War and twenty ruins of various shops and dwellings in the town. He also illustrates methods of ruin excavation and stabilization, including the replacement of palisade posts in the original fort ditch as part of the site's development as Historic Bethabara Park.
Some of the most interesting of South's finds concern the confluence of two traditions of pottery and stoneware production. One of these is represented by forty pottery wheel-thrown types and forms made by the master German potter Gottfried Aust between 1755 and 1771, excavated from the ruin of his shop and kiln waster dump. Additional work at both Bethabara and Salem recovered the waster dumps of Aust's journeyman potter Rudolph Christ, who had also studied with the Staffordshire potter William Ellis. Christ's wares, which demonstrate both German and English influences, are discussed in detail.
Extensively documented and heavily illustrated with over 320 photographs, drawings, and maps, this volume - a classic example of the process of historical archaeology as demonstrated by one of its foremost practitioners in America - is a valuable resource for avocational archaeologists, particularly those living in the Southeast, as well as historical archaeologists, historians, ceramicists, ceramics collectors, students of colonial culture, and museologists.

• 19. Jahrhundert
• artifacts
• ceramic arts
• historic site development
• historical archaeology

• South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology and Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia

  Stanley South

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