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Pieces associated with clothing found during the recent work include these three brass buttons (a, b & c), a bone button (d), a porcelain button (e), a shell button (f), a black glass button (g), and this jet bead (h). Jet jewelry became popular in the nineteenth century after Britain's Queen Victoria began wearing jet as part of her mourning attire following the death of her husband, Prince Albert.

Other clothing related items include this brass garter snap (I), and these brass straight pins (j). The bone toothbrush (k) and handle (l) are typical of ones used during the mid-nineteenth century.

Other personal items found included a reed stem pipe bowl fragment (m), and kaolin molded pipe bowl fragment (n) shown beside it. The porcelain doll head seen in (o) still has evidence of the black paint used to color in the hair and eyes.