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Phase II Archaeological Testing on Wye Greenhouse (18TA314), Talbot County, Maryland, 2008
From October 27, 2008 to November 24, 2008 staff from the Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), Archaeology in Annapolis Project, conducted archaeological testing on the Wye House Greenhouse (18TA314), Talbot County, Maryland. This Phase II investigation has been conducted at the request of the Greenhouse’s current owner, Mrs. Mary Tilghman, prior to planned Greenhouse foundation stabilization efforts. The project area for this Phase II archaeological investigation comprises the immediate exterior perimeter of the Wye Greenhouse foundation. Seven test units were excavated in the course of this project to evaluate archaeological integrity and to evaluate the potential effects of planned stabilization efforts on archaeological resources. In addition to questions of archaeological integrity, research questions guiding this project focused on the architectural development of the Wye Greenhouse as well as its social use, both by members of the Lloyd family and the plantation’s enslaved African-American inhabitants. Background historical research and oral histories differ concerning the Greenhouse’s initial date of construction. Historical research suggests a construction date of the c. 1770s, while oral histories suggest an initial date of construction of c. 1740s. Archaeological testing has shown that the Greenhouse underwent two major developmental phases—with the main block of the Greenhouse having been constructed in the 1770s and the East and West Wings and hypocaust system added in the mid 1780s. In addition to providing evidence of the Greenhouse’s structural change, levels and features excavated in the course of this project have shed light on the social use of the Wye Greenhouse throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Artifact deposits analyzed in this report detail the Lloyd family’s use of the Greenhouse as both a social space and as a symbol of 18th century opulence. Artifact analyses also shed light on the use of the Greenhouse’s north shed as a slave quarter from the 1790s through the 1840s. Testing in the course of this project has concluded that there is a high degree of archaeological integrity within the project’s area of potential effect. In addition, testing has determined that intact archaeological resources have the distinct potential to add a considerable depth of historical knowledge concerning the Greenhouse’s structural change and social use throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Archaeological evidence detailed in this report should be read as supporting evidence for the Greenhouse’s inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.
Archeological Survey of the Homestead National Monument of America
1986
In April, 1985 the Midwest Archaeological Center, National Park Service, contracted with the Department of Anthropology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, for a cultural sites survey of the Homestead National Monument of America, Beatrice, Nebraska. The survey resulted in the accumulation of additional information about the nature and distribution of artifacts associated with the Daniel Freeman homestead (25GA91) and the documentation of a Central Plains Tradition site (25GA89) at the Monument. Because of the limited subsurface testing conducted at the Monument only site interpretations of a more general nature could be proposed. Nevertheless, the cultural resources at the Homestead National Monument have the potential for contributing to our understanding of late prehistoric occupation of the Central Plains and of the historic settlement of the Plains following the Civil War.
PHASE II ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE WATERMAN PROPERTY QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND
This report provides a summary of the methodology and the results of a Phase II archaeological survey conducted at the Wheatland’s Plantation-Waterman property located near Queenstown, Maryland. The work completed for this study includes a systematic pedestrian survey of over 20 tilled acres associated with five discrete areas on the property identified during an earlier Phase I survey to contain potential archaeological resources. Prior to the pedestrian survey, these five localities were moldboard plowed, which brought to the surface any underlying materials associated with any potential archaeological features. After the pedestrian survey, all surface artifacts were mapped via an aerial drone and individual artifact clusters were delineated. Soil analysis and profiles were also generated for surface artifact clusters located on the property. Upon delineating artifact cluster areas, the plowzone or Ap-soil horizon was stripped and the sub-surface was flat-shoveled to expose any potential intact archaeological features within the underlying sub-soil. The pedestrian survey revealed a loose scatter of brick fragments throughout the property augmented by the occasional small ceramic, glass, or metal fragment. The aerial drone mapping of the surface artifacts indicates marked movement as a result of long-term agricultural practices in dense silt-loam soils. A dense cluster of brick was identified on the surface in one small area and a cluster of prehistoric lithic and ceramic artifacts was located within another small portion of the property. Soils analysis and test excavations indicate that the brick cluster represents a brick-rubble dump located within a low formerly-tilled swale. The prehistoric locality contains no sub-surface components and artifacts are confined to the plowzone. The original 53-acre archaeological site boundary designated for 18QU1038 documented during the previous Phase I survey should be modified to encompass the legitimate archaeological features located within the property area. Our results indicate that the proposed construction area will have no impact on any archaeological resources alleviating the owner of any cultural resource management concerns in terms of the proposed construction area.
A phase II archaeological investigation of the Wye Greenhouse was undertaken at the behest of Mrs. Mary Tilghman, the current owner of the Wye House property (18TA314). The purpose of this investigation is to evaluate the impact of proposed restoration work on the foundation of the Wye Greenhouse to intact archaeological deposits, and to assess the presence and integrity of buried pollen and plant remains relating to the historical operation of the Greenhouse. The Wye House property is located on Bruffs Island Road near Easton, Maryland, in Talbot County, where the Wye River, Lloyd Creek and Shaw Bay intersect (Figure 1). Archaeological excavations took place on the interior southern room of the Greenhouse. Excavations were completed between July 8, 2009 and July 17, 2009. The excavations were performed by John Blair and Stephanie Duensing. Pollen samples were collected by John Blair and Stephanie Duensing with the help and guidance of Dr. Heather Trigg. This report presents the results of fieldwork that took place over this period, and the subsequent laboratory work and analysis that continued through August, 2009. This report is an addition to the Phase II Archaeological Testing on Wye Greenhouse (18TA314), Talbot County, Maryland, 2008 report (Blair, Cochran, and Duensing, 2009), which details the results of testing excavations on the interior and exterior of the Greenhouse structure. This report will be a second volume of the initial Wye Greenhouse report, containing supplemental data to the initial report. The 2009 report by Blair, Cochran, and Duensing was focused on the archaeological excavations that were performed on the exterior perimeter and the northern shed addition. The current report Blair and Duensing will focus on the archaeological excavations that were performed on the interior of the southern portion of the Greenhouse.
An Archaeological Survey of Mangor in Ronland on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria
Lapai Journal of Humanities, 2015
Mangor is one of the areas in Bokkos Local Government Area on the southwestern Jos Plateau occupied by a group of people who refer to themselves as the Ron people. And like most Ron people, they claim that they originated from around the Bauchi area or probably beyond and got to the Jos Plateau where they settled first at Gindiri then, Fier, Lankan and finally Ronland, which is towards the escarpment. Also like most parts of Ronland, the Mangor area has several abandoned hills on which are evidence of human occupation such as potsherds, stone tools, circular stone arrangements representing house foundations and pens, among others. Places identified under Mangor include the main Mangor gida, Daress, Gawarza, and Tahore. Several other unidentified abandoned settlements, in the area do not seem to have much cultural links with the present-day Mangor people, and the people do not even mention them in their traditions thereby suggesting that earlier groups could have been in existence in the area before the new migrants from the claimed area of origin arrived which is the main focus of this paper. Therefore, in order to get a clearer picture of the peopling of the Mangor area, the historical archaeology approach appears to be an appropriate tool of investigation as it involves the utilization of both archaeological and historical data in collaboration with ethnographic and linguistic data. At the end, we would have a better understanding on how the Mangor people, and even the Ron people as a whole emerged.
A Report of Archaeological Test Excavations at the Burrell Farm Site 33Ln283 August 2012
The Burrell Farmhouse is an 1820s-era, Federal-style, brick home situated at the south end of the Burrell Homestead in Sheffield Village, Lorain County, Ohio. The farmhouse and adjacent property (Homestead) are bounded on the east by East River Rd, approximately 0.5 mile south of Rt. 611. Approximately 0.4 miles west is the current main channel of the Black River, about 0.2 mile upriver from the mouth of French Creek (Figure 1). At the north end of the property is the Burrell Orchard prehistoric archaeological site (33Ln15). Today, the Burrell Homestead and Burrell Orchard site are managed by the Lorain County Metro Parks. A total of four square meters were excavated in the form of an exploratory test trench behind the historic Burrell Farmhouse. Excavation revealed a shallow historic midden just below the surface, and extending to approximately 25 cm below datum. The midden contained artifacts of various domestic activities. A portion of the artifacts were diagnostic to the family occupation from 1869 to 1932. No direct evidence of a nineteenth century tunnel was found; however, a zone of possible fill was identified at the extreme southern end of the test trench. This zone is characterized as homogeneous sediment stratum that was devoid of both artifacts, and the tree and plant roots that dominated the remainder of the trench. The origin of this zone is unknown and warrants further investigation.
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The Peach Orchard site is one of several historic Caddo archaeological sites recently recorded by Kevin Stingley in the Bowles Creek drainage in the middle Neches River basin in Cherokee County, Texas. The Peach Orchard site had been exposed in erosion along a county road that bisects the southern end of the upland landform, while the remainder of the landform was primarily grass-covered when it was first recorded earlier in 2015. In November 2015, the landowner decided to shallowly plow the site area to improve its grass cover, and this plowing provided an opportunity to complete a surface collection of the site area from November to December 2015.
Farmstead sites dating to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are one of the most common types of archaeological sites found in the Southern Appalachians. Despite the ubiquity of these sites across the landscape, no formal effort has been made to examine this as a unique site type on the Chattahoochee National Forest. The Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest proposes to develop a context and management plan for nineteenth and twentieth farmsteads in the Southern Appalachians. This will involve a combination of historic and archaeological research in order to provide a context for such sites and characterize this type of site. Such a context and management plan will allow for the more efficient evaluation and management of such sites when they are recorded in the future. The present document is a research design that will guide the development of a context and management plan for farmsteads dating to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.