With only three of these little mounts in our collection (including this one), it's likely they were all attached to the same object or set of objects belonging to one person. The collections team will do more research on who that person might be! Stay tuned.

The mount takes the form of a mythological bird called a martlet. The martlet doesn't have feet (just feather-pants!) and cannot land. In heraldry, it was often associated with the fourth son, who did not inherit any property and was forced to "fly the coop" and make it on his own.

More research is definitely needed! A maker's mark could help us figure out when and where the coin was made. And (if you enjoy a tongue twister) the weight of the weight will give us a date, but all those details will be catalogued after the coin has been cleaned and conserved. Stay tuned!

French coins (and other foreign coinage) were not uncommon in 16th and 17th century England and coin weights were made in both the country of origin and the country where the coin was used. So it's possible this coin weight, though made for a French coin, was actually made in England.

Lots of artifacts excavated this summer came from Jamestown's early years as a historic site and have been a fascinating look at the people who helped save this important place.

This bottle is a unique triangular pickle-style bottle, which essentially means that it has a wide mouth, and could have contained cucumber pickles, or other types of pickled goods. It was mold blown with a hand-finished rim. If you want to look it up, the design patent number is 35,956!

Using these details, Senior Curator Leah Stricker found that the bottle was produced in Zanesville, Ohio by the Kearns-Gorsuch Bottle Co. The patent for the bottle was applied for by Charles H. Hess on July 26, 1901, and (as the base of the bottle indicates) was approved on August 20, 1901.

Wait, what? It's true! This summer, field school students found several fragments of a triangular glass bottle. Most exciting, this bottle was dated! The bottom is inscribed "Patented Aug 20 1901."

Because a huge amount of dirt was moved around to build the earthworks, we've found a lot of artifacts while excavating there. Learn more at historicjamestowne.org/archaeology/...

This camera element may have been used at Jamestown as the Civil War-era Fort Pocahontas was being constructed, or by a Union soldier who was present on the island after Fort Pocahontas was abandoned.

This one is marked with the number 16, indicating that the aperture hole measures 16mm in diameter. Today, most cameras use an iris diaphragm to select different f-stops to change the amount of light used when creating a photograph.