Connecticut Department of Transportation

Thomas Daniels Archaeological Site

An Early 18th-Century Connecticut Homestead

Sources of Additional Information

    Image of enameled glass tumbler with bird motif

    Fragment of an enameled glass tumbler, with bird-motif decoration.

  • Deetz, James. In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Everyday Life. New York: Anchor Books Doubleday, 1977.
  • Gordon, Robert B. American Iron, 1607-1900. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1996.
  • Harper, Ross K., and Bruce Clouette. Report: Phase III Archaeological Data Recovery Program. The 1712-ca. 1770s Daniels Homestead (Site No. 152-128). Storrs, CT: Archaeological and Historical Services, Inc., 2007. Available at the Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs.
  • Hempstead, Joshua. Diary of Joshua Hempstead 1711-1758. Collections of the New London County Historical Society, Volume I. New London, 1901. Also available online.
  • Isham, Norman M., and Albert F. Brown. Early Connecticut Houses: An Historical and Architectural Study. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1965. Originally published in 1900. Also available online.
  • Kelly, J. Frederick. Early Domestic Architecture of Connecticut. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1963. Originally published in 1924.
  • Knight, Sarah Kemble. The Journal of Madam Knight. A Treacherous Journey by Horseback from Boston to New York in the Year 1704. New York: Theodore Dwight, 1825. Reprinted 1992 by Applewood Books, Chester, CT. Also available online.
  • Light, John D. "The Archaeology of Blacksmith Shops," Journal of the Society for Industrial Archaeology, vol. 10, no. 1 (1984): 55-68.
  • Nylander, Jane C. Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
  • Russell, Howard S. A Long, Deep Furrow: Three Centuries of Farming in New England. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1982.
  • St. George, Robert Blair. Conversing by Signs: Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
  • Watkins, Laura Woodside. Early New England Potters and Their Wares. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950.

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