Artifacts that were recovered had either surfaced after a rainy season or while the earth was disturbed during planting or removal of plants and bushes. Artifacts include domestic ceramic and bottle glass fragments; architectural materials such as wrought nails, brick fragments and window glass; faunal materials including clam and oyster shells; clothing items such as buttons and miscellaneous iron objects or portions thereof including pieces of farming implements. The recovered ceramic and faunal materials indicted the location of the 1812 House kitchen pit directly north of the side entrance to the Summer Kitchen. The glass pit also included pieces of high buttoned leather shoes and the metal pit were found on a back path.

The detailing of the Helme House inventory follows the formatting of Monticello's Digital Archaeological Archive of Chespeake Slavery, December 15, 2004 database (http://www.daacs.org).

Ceramic and glass bottle fragments were the most numerous. Pearlware was the most common of the refined earthenwares recovered to-date.