These are copper scrap and off-cuts representing the by-products of trade ornaments produced by the colonists. Thousands of pieces of scrap sheet copper have been found during the James Fort excavations. It is obvious that the English came prepared to trade, not with European copper objects to be recycled or reworked by the Indians, but with sheet copper. The colonists would work this raw material in the fort to produce beads and pendants like the ornaments they observed the Indians wearing.