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James Anderson Blacksmith and Public Armoury Images
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Logo signage for the Anderson Blacksmith Shop and Public Armoury.
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Historic trades carpenters and other costumed staff raise the timber-framed east wall
of the main armoury building in August 2011.
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Historic brickmason Ray Canetti works on the top of one of the blacksmith forge chimneys.
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Historic tradesmen attach some of the thousands of hand-cut shingles to the roof of
the main armoury building.
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A historic trades carpenters uses a molding plane to shape molding for the armoury
building interior.
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The view looking south inside the reconstructed armoury. Two of the four interior
forges are visible.
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A computer-generated, labeled view of the Anderson Blacksmith Shop and Public Armoury
when the project is complete in 2013.
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Archaeologists search for artifacts during excavation around the foundation of the
Tin Shop adjacent to the James Anderson property.
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A collection of interesting finds from a one meter square area of archaeological excavation
next to the Tin Shop site. The artifacts include a pig's jaw, tobacco pipe stems,
ceramic fragments, a portion of a wine bottle base and half of a silver shoe buckle.
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This large crucible was recovered during the archaeological excavation at the Tin
Shop site. An X-Ray Fluorescence analysis indicated the crucible contained various
amounts of copper, zinc and lead.
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These scraps of tinned iron were excavated at the Tin Shop site. Eighteenth-century
tinsmith clipped these triangular fragments from rectangular tinplate sheets as they
fashioned the tinned iron into various forms: camp kettles, coffeepots, cartridge
boxes, lanterns, mugs, plates and speaking trumpets.
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