A fine assortment of fireplace tools and accessories have been found at
Jamestown, including iron tongs, shovels, andirons, parts of brass
warming-pans, and a large fragment from a cast-iron fireback. One early
17th-century andiron recovered is attractively decorated with a cherub's
head in relief.

[Illustration: A FEW FIREPLACE TOOLS UNEARTHED AT JAMESTOWN.]

[Illustration: AN EARLY 17TH-CENTURY ANDIRON IN THE JAMESTOWN
COLLECTION. NOTE THE CHERUB'S HEAD NEAR THE BASE.]


COOKING UTENSILS AND ACCESSORIES

A large and varied assortment of cooking utensils and kitchen
accessories have been excavated, including kettles, pots, pans,
skillets, frying pans, toasters, broilers, griddles, skimmers, skewers,
spits, ladles, pothooks, trammels, cranes, trivets, cleavers, knives and
forks, sieves, and colanders. While only a few are complete others are
almost complete or at least easily recognizable.

During the early years of the colony, people in England who planned to
emigrate to Jamestown were advised to bring the following "Household
implements: One Iron Pot, One Kettle, One large frying-pan, One
gridiron, Two skillets, One Spit, Platters, dishes, spoones of wood."
With the exception of the wooden items, all of the utensils listed have
been excavated.

[Illustration: A WROUGHT-IRON TRAMMEL USED FOR HANGING A POT FROM A