Walking Down the “Prettie Street” of 17th-Century Ferryland, Newfoundland
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Abstract
In this article textile remains dating to the 17th century that were uncovered in a privy at Ferryland, Newfoundland are discussed. Two issues are examined: the type of cloth used by the colonists at Ferryland, a prosperous 17th century plantation; and what the purposely cut fragments found in the privy represent. While the moist anaerobic environment allowed for good preservation of the excavated textiles, analysis using state of the art equipment revealed a variety of textiles were in use, ranging from the “Old Draperies” to the “New Draperies” classifications. Analysis also shows that 17th century Ferryland was comprised of low, middle and high status people as evidenced by the variety of textiles including coarse to fine wools, silk, silk satin, silk damask and velvet. Dye analysis revealed the presence of different dye materials that produced colours from reds to yellows to purple. Resume Cet article examine des restes textiles, remontant au XVIIe siecle, decouverts dans des latrines a Ferryland, a Terre-Neuve, sous deux angles: le type de tissu employe par les colons de Ferryland, prospere plantation du XVIIe siecle; et ce que signifient ces fragments intentionnellement decoupes. L’environnement anaerobique humide a permis une bonne conservation des textiles decouverts, et l’analyse effectuee avec un equipement a la fine pointe de la technologie a revele qu’une grande variete de textiles etaient en usage, variant selon la classification des «anciennes draperies» aux «nouvelles draperies». Les analyses demontrent egalement qu’a Ferryland, au XVIIe siecle, les statuts sociaux etaient nettement differencies, comme le montre la grande diversite des textiles, allant de la laine grossiere a la laine fine, la soie, le satin de soie, la soie damassee et le velours. Les analyses des teintures ont revele la presence de differentes matieres tinctoriales produisant des couleurs allant du rouge au mauve, en passant par le jaune.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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