Mathook from the Flatts

A Dutch harvesting tool with which a farmer would grasp grain stocks together, then slice with a sith and drop the grain for binding into sheaves.

Window Glass from the Flatts

Leaded glass filled casement windows at the Flatts.

Tableware from the Flatts

Book Clasp from the Flatts

Brass book clasps indicate Arent's household possessed books.

Scissors from the Flatts

Red Pipkin from the Flatts

The pipkin was an all-purpose vessel.

Glass Beaker Fragments from the Flatts

Porcelain from the Flatts

These sherds of Chinese porcelain in the Wan-Li pattern are a sign of wealth and status.

Pewter Bottle Top from the Flatts

Pewter tops screwed onto glass bottles. One was found at the Flatts with AVC scratched as a monogram onto it.

Nursing Shield from the Flatts

Nursing shields were used by nursing mothers to protect sore nipples when breast-feeding extended to long after children cut their front teeth. They appear in medical literature of 16th century France. This one from the Flatts is nearly identical to those excavated in Amsterdam. Modern mothers sometimes use shields made from soft plastic rather than metal.

Tile from the Flatts

A Delft tile found by Bobby Brustle in cellar #2.

Fire Tongs from the Flatts

Fire tongs with which Arent would have tended his hearth.

Fireback from the Flatts

This surviving section of this iron fire back from the Flatt's hearth was cast with a torso and upraised arm holding a staff. The design closely resembles the complete fire back in the next image.

Pro Patria Fireback

This complete undated fire back resembles the surviving piece of a fire back from the Flatts. It is incscribed "hollandia" and "Pro Patria." A woman holds a lance topped with a hat. A crowned lion crouches before her. She sits within a fenced enclosure representing the "Dutch Garden." Through such symbols a household like Arent's tied itself to the Dutch Republic and the House of Orange.

Brass Cock from the Flatts

Key from the Flatts