Avalon Chronicles
Avalon Chronicles serves as a means of communication among
researchers in the early colonial history and archaeology of
eastern North America. It also serves as a means of communication
between researchers and the interested public. The Avalon
Chronicles were published annually by the Colony of Avalon
Foundation, Ferryland, Newfoundland until 2003. Future publications
are currently on hold pending funding.
Buy the full set of volumes 1-8 for $75.00 Cdn. +GST.
Avalon Chronicles Vol. 1
Contents: “Six Letters form the Early Colony of
Avalon”; “Archaeology at Ferryland”;
“Newfoundland 1936-1995”; “The House that Younge
Drew? An Example of Seventeenth-Century Vernacular Housing in
Renews”; “Looking for Cupers Cove: Initial
Archaeological Survey and Excavations at Cupids,
Newfoundland”; and “Behind the Scenes: Conservation
Support for Historical Archaeology.” Price $9.95 Cdn.
Avalon Chronicles Vol. 2
Contents: “Seventeenth-Century Stone Construction at
Ferryland”; “Anglicans, Puritans and Quakers in
Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century Newfoundland”; and “A
Seventeenth-Century Smithy at Ferryland, Newfoundland.” Price
$9.95 Cdn.
Avalon Chronicles Vol. 3
Contents: “Portugese terra sigillata earthenware
discovered at a 17th-century colonial site in Ferryland,
Newfoundland”; “The role of religion in Lord
Baltimore's colonial enterprise”; “Archaeology at
Ferryland, Newfoundland - 1997”; “Baltimore vs. Kirke:
Newfoundland evidence in an interegnum lawsuit”; and
“Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century bottle seals from
Ferryland, Newfoundland”. Price $9.95 Cdn.
Avalon Chronicles Vol. 4
Contents: “The aire in Newfoundland is wholesome good” - The Medical Landscape of Newfoundland in the seventeenth century by J.K. Crellin. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century marked clay tobacco pipes from Ferryland, Newfoundland by Barry Gaulton. A seventeenth-century planter's house at Ferryland, Newfoundland by Douglas Nixon. Dating pre-cylindrical English wine bottles from Ferryland, Newfoundland by John Wicks. Price $9.95 Cdn.
Avalon Chronicles Vol. 5
Contents: A planter's house at Ferryland, Newfoundland by Amanda
Crompton. Seventeenth-century tin-glazed earthenware from Ferryland
by Eleanor Stoddart. A glimpse at Haffnungsthal: the First Movarian
Mission in Labrador by Stephen Mills and Henry Cary. Price $9.95
Cdn.
Avalon Chronicles Vol. 6
Contents: George Calvert: Coutier, Colonizer, Capitalist,
Catholic by John D. Krugler. An Early historic Beothuk occupation
at Ferryland, Newfoundland by Rick Gaulton. William Strachey's
unrecorded first draft of his Sea Venture saga by Ivor Noel Hume.
Archaeology at Ferryland 1998-2000 by James A. Tuck and Barry
Gaulton. Price $9.95 Cdn.
Avalon Chronicles Vol. 7
Contents: The Numismatics of Ferryland by Paul Berry. Counting
in the New World: Two early modern tallies from Newfoundland and
Labrador by Roman Kovalev. Archaeology at Renews, Newfoundland by
Stephen F. Mills.
Price $9.95 Cdn.
Avalon Chronicles Special Edition Vol. 8 - The English in America 1497-1696
Contents: The English at Newfoundland in the Century after Cabot
by Peter E. Pope. The first English house in the New World by
Robert McGhee. The riddle of Roanoke by Ivor Noel Hume. Jamestown
Pheonix by W.M. Kelso and Bly Straube. Popham: the First English
Colony in New England by Jeffery P. Brain. Finding Cupers Cove:
Archaeology at Cupids, Newfoundland, 1995-2002 by William Gilbert.
Archaeology of the Plymouth Colony in Massachussets by Mary C.
Beaudry, Karin J. Goldstein and Craig Chartier. The Archaeology of
Ferryland, Newfoundland, until 1696 by Barry Gaulton and James A.
Tuck. Lord Baltimore's Colony of Maryland and it's Capital of St.
Mary's City 1634-1695 by Henry M. Miller. Lord Baltimore's
Neighborhood: Standards of living on the seventeenth-century
patuxent frontier by Julia A. King and Edward E. Chaney.
Price $24.50 Cdn.
Manuscripts and editorial correspondance should be addressed to:
James A. Tuck and Barry Gaulton, Editors
Avalon Chronicles
c/o Archaeology
Memorial University
St. John's, NL
Canada, A1C 5S7
