Late-Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Century Artifacts Recovered during Cabildo Excavations

The dig recovered abundant material from the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century, including both ceramics and a significant number of wine and liquor bottles. The volume of these alcohol containers was so high that they made up roughly half of the glass vessel assemblages in both the sites within the prison interior and within the courtyard. This matches accounts about whiskey rations given to prisoners. The archaeology report also implies that prisoners were supplied with a ration of tobacco due to the high volumes of smoking pipe fragments uncovered.