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Written on: September 24th, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
Greetings from our new adventure, the Armstrong-Rogers site! On Wednesday, September 19th, archaeologists from Dovetail Cultural Resource Group commenced our data recovery on this eighteenth-nineteenth century historic site. Research indicates that the property was owned by the Armstrong family from 1739 until 1824 and the Rogers clan from 1824 through the 1850s. Tenant farmers then […]
Written on: September 24th, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
At the Bird-Houston Site we spent all week excavating features. On the newer part of the site, where people lived from around 1830 to 1920, several of the features are shallow pits filled with brick rubble. We think these are the remains of brick piers, a simple kind of foundation you can still see at […]
Written on: September 21st, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
Pit Feature At the Bird-Houston Site we spent much of the week working on an archaeological mystery. The largest feature on the site is this pit, which measured about 10 by 11 feet. One quarter of the feature was dug last year during the testing phase. This showed that the pit was roughly cone-shaped, […]
Written on: September 17th, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
Well Well, well, well… At the Cardon Holton site we almost made it to the bottom of the well using conventional hand excavation but with two feet left to go the side walls from the original cone of excavation started to fissure and made further investigations unsafe. With assistance from the backhoe we were […]
Written on: September 17th, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
Cooking Pit Features Last week at the Cardon/Holton Site the Hunter Research Inc. crew worked hard removing the remainder of pits started last week. The pit with the juvenile articulated pig turned out to be more complicated than we first thought. The articulated bones only represented the limbs of one, possibly two pigs with […]
Written on: September 12th, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
Iron artifacts in a shallow pit feature At the Bird-Houston Site we spent the first part of the week mapping and photographing our features. Before they start excavating Archaeologists always make a careful record, by drawings and photographs, of whatever they are going to dig into. And then the payoff – actually digging into […]
Written on: September 5th, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
Kevin McCloskey (left) and John Potts (right) help excavate the cellar at the Houston-LeCompt site. Nine weeks down, one to go! In our second to last week of full-scale excavation at the Houston-LeCompt site, the Dovetail crew grew in number and moved a lot of dirt. Several archaeologists fresh off of the great work […]
Written on: August 31st, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
This week at the Cardon-Holton site started off with a downpour but ended with sunshine. The backhoe was able to finish stripping the plowzone under less than prime conditions with the precision of a surgeon revealing several early historic refuse, storage cellars and of course postholes. Stripping also revealed additional prehistoric pit features as well […]
Written on: August 31st, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
Excavator working at the Bird-Houston Site This was a big week at the Bird-Houston Site, when we stripped off the plowzone to see what lies beneath. After two long days of following the excavator across the site, we exposed dozens of pits, post holes, and other “features.” This is exhausting work, shoveling up loose […]
Written on: August 31st, 2012 in Archaeology Updates, US301
Joelle Browning measures the circular feature while Sue Ferenbach records the feature on the site map. This week at the Cardon-Holton Site Hunter Research, Inc. was busy removing the plowzone revealing numerous features dating to the early 18th century and possibly the late 17th century. Along the site’s southern border a large circular stain […]
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