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Written on: August 20th, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
The Houston LeCompt site this past Saturday The Houston-LeCompt Site has had its share of complications as fieldwork has gone on. Saturday we arrived to find the site largely underwater due to torrential rains in the Middletown area. It was a long day of bucket bailing, shopping for a sump pump capable of removing […]
Written on: August 20th, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
Last week Hunter Research, Inc. started data recovery excavations at the Cardon-Holton Site (7NC-F-128, N14508), another early historic farmstead along the U.S. Route 301 alignment. (Below is a link to a handout about the site.) https://deldot.gov/environmental/archaeology/us301/pdf/handouts/CardonOnePageHandout.pdf Historic research into this property indicated that from 1685 to 1722 this area was part of an extensive plantation […]
Written on: August 16th, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
300 and counting. That’s the current number of features recorded at the Houston-LeCompt site. Some features are small, like post holes and post molds showing us fence lines and shallow refuse pits where remains were thrown away out of sight. Other features, though, are quite large and vastly informative. To date, we have found a […]
Written on: August 15th, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
Archaeologist Matt Sanna holds a stirrup Giddy-yup! Food consumption and horse riding were the themes this week at the Rumsey/Polk Tenant/ site, and we found food remains and “horsey” items galore. Several large trash pits dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were excavated this week. A few pits that would have been used to […]
Written on: August 7th, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
Field Crew This week at the Rumsey-Polk site, archaeologists finished measuring, mapping, describing, drawing and photographing the site’s 530-plus “features” including a possible house, wells, several pits, and over 400 post holes showing house and fence lines. Excavation began on some of the pits with artifacts on the surface and the possible house. Initial […]
Written on: August 6th, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
Boy, we are having fun now! This week’s activities at the Houston-LeCompt site comprised of creating a full site plan map and beginning feature excavation. The location of each of our 250+ features was captured, through the use of a total station (a digital transit), and the data was then used to draft a field map. […]
Written on: July 30th, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
Feature Mapping This week at the Rumsey-Polk site, archaeologists continued to measure, map, describe, draw and photograph the site’s cellar holes, pits, posts, wooden sills, and remains of former structures made and used by the 18th and 19th-century tenant farmers (photo). Over 240 of these “features” were meticulously and carefully documented to enable archaeologists […]
Written on: July 30th, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
What a difference a week makes! Over the past week at the Houston LeCompt excavation, most of the mechanical stripping has been completed revealing myriad features, and many intriguing artifacts. It looks like the site core contains the main house cellar, at least six possible outbuildings, a potential well, and a historic sheet midden. While […]
Written on: July 23rd, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
This week at the Rumsey-Polk site, archaeologists worked through the heat and rain to document more “features” – cellar holes, pits, posts, and wells made and used by the 18th and 19th-century tenant farmers. We found one type of feature that is rarely preserved, remains of wooden sills that once supported “earthfast” houses and sheds. […]
Written on: July 23rd, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
The last week of work on the Elkins Site saw a gathering of historic preservation specialists from the Delaware Division of Historic and Cultural Affairs, including State Historic Preservation Officer Timothy Slavin. This meeting enabled the team to share ideas with other specialists and to discuss interpretations and strategies for the site. Meanwhile, the […]
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