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A hierarchy of servitude: ceramics at Lake Innes Estate, New South Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alasdair Brooks  and
Graham Connah
Alasdair Brooks
Affiliation:
1Archaeology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic 3086, Australia (Email: a.brooks@latrobe.edu.au).
Graham Connah
Affiliation:
2School of Archaeology & Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia (Email: graham.connah@effect.net.au).
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A British colonial estate in eastern Australia, built by 1830 and abandoned 20 years later, survives as the ruins of the Big House surrounded by stables, a farm and servants' quarters. The authors recovered pottery assemblages from a number of different servants' dwellings and here show that they differed from each other, revealing a ‘hierarchy of servitude’. It is natural to think that such a situation would provide helpful analogies for earlier empires, like the Roman, but historical archaeology has its own framework, varying even from country to country.

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AustraliaNew South Walesnineteenth centuryceramicscolonialhistorical archaeology

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Antiquity , Volume 81 , Issue 311 , 1 March 2007 , pp. 133 - 147
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2007

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