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Wine bottle seal with merchant type motif. Numeral 4 on top line of text, linked by upright to XX on the third line of text. Between the 4 and the XX is a line of text consisting of a ligatured backwards B joined to an R. All text is surrounded by a beaded border.
Site:18QU28-Bennett’s Point
Early to mid-eighteenth-century trash pit

Date Range: Early to mid-eighteenth century

Size: Unknown

Style: Merchant-type

Description:
Broken wine bottle seal with merchant type motif.  Numeral 4 on top line of text, linked by upright to XX on the third line of text.  Between the 4 and the XX is a line of text consisting of a ligatured backwards B joined to an R.  All text is surrounded by a circle border.

Initials stand for Richard Bennett III, planter, merchant and lawyer who occupied the property between 1700 and 1749.