Finds wall
Archaeologists excavated about 140,000 artefacts from the first Government House site. This small selection gives you an idea of the range of objects they collected.
Screen one
Skull-shaped tobacco pipe bowl
Tobacco pipe bowls
Fragments of slop bowl
Basin
Fence post
Gaming token
Fragment of plate
Sherds of ginger beer bottle
Screen two
Fragments of bricks
Roof tiles
Marbles
Fragments of plate
Teacup
Fragments of teacups
Fragments of bowl
Fragment of teacup
Fragment of vat
Roof tiles with animal footprints
Screen three
Fragments of plate
Plates and dishes
Axe head
Cannonball
Fragments of bowl
Buttons
Tureen
Coin
Screen four
Bottle seals
Neck of bottle
Sherd of glass bottle repurposed as a tool
Sherd of bottle
Fragments of stemmed glasses
Oyster shells
Shells
Bottle seals
Sherd of bottle
Fragment of bottle with seal
Fragment of stemmed glassware
Base and piece of a glass bottle repurposed as a tool
Shells
Screen five
Bone point
Animal bones
Cow bone
Sheep bones
Cow's teeth
Flint nodule
Gun flints
Cow bone
Sandstone carving with starburst design
Bone
Bone
Fish bones
Fowl bones
Dominoes
Bone points
Gaming tokens
Flint nodule
