Artifact Challenge

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Artifact Challenge

• Instructions There are 10 artifacts that you
  must correctly identify. Click on the answer
  that you think is correct. Good Luck!

Go to Question 1
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What do you think this artifact is?

• a padlock
• a belt buckle
• a locket from a necklace

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Keep Digging for the Right Answer.
Go Back Try Again
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Correct!! Way to Go!

• This is a very rusted padlock with a brass
  keyhole cover.

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This artifact might have been used for?

• Cooking
• Sewing
• Farming

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Correct!

• This is a flattened brass thimble. Brass Thimbles
  have been used since the 17th century.

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Kids your age used this artifact for what?

• Brushing their teeth
• Writing and drawing on the blackboard
• Cleaning dishes

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AWESOME!!

• Slate pencils, like this worn example seen here,
  were very common throughout the 19th century.
  These pencils, when used on a slate writing
  tablet, would produce white lines similar to
  chalk.

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Buttons are a very common find on archaeological
sites.

• True
• False

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WAY TO GO!

• Buttons are very common on archaeological sites.
  Moving from left to right is a common, 4-holed,
  porcelain button, a four-holed iron button, and a
  hard rubber button.

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This artifact is a broken piece of what?

• Tea pot
• Hook to hang clothes
• Watering can

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RIGHT AGAIN!

• Big cast iron tea kettles were used to boil water
  and were often found hanging from iron arms or
  cranes in the fireplace.

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Is this a penny?

• True
• False

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YEAH!

• This example of an Indian Head penny, dated 1864.
  Indian Head pennies were minted from 1859 to
  1909.

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What do you think this is?

• Tool used in farming
• Lid to a pot
• Coffee grinder

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GOOD JOB!

• These cast iron objects were used for grinding
  coffee beans.
• Today, we have electric coffee grinders.

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This artifact is still around today.

• True
• False

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CORRECT!

• This is a iron drill.
• Your parents probably have something that looks
  very similar to this.

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These are

• Pieces of chalk
• Clay beads
• Straws
• Tobacco pipe stems

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EXCELLENT!

• These are fragments of clay tobacco pipe stems.
  Because the thin clay stems on these pipes broke
  easily, 17th and 18th century archaeological
  sites are often littered with pipe stem
  fragments.

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This is

• A plate
• A turtle shell
• A pot
• The sole of a shoe

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RIGHT AGAIN!

• This the lower shell of a turtle found on a site.
  Turtle shells are technically bones to an
  archaeologist, and discovering one on an
  archaeological site tells us something about what
  the people who lived here were eating.

Credits Page
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Credits Page

• http//www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/history/argy/a
  rtquiz/argyaq7.cfm - turtle shell picture
• http//www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/history/argy/a
  rtquiz/argyaq4.cfm - pipe pictures
• http//www.kidsdigreed.com/artifacts.asp - all
  other pictures