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T.D. Jones Field C (18AN406)

Site History

The T.D. Jones Field C site (18AN406) is a Woodland period base camp or village located southeast of Laurel on the Patuxent River in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

Archaeological Investigations

This site was initially identified in 1905 by Talbot D. Jones, an insurance underwriter who was also an active avocational archeologist. Jones's collection and field notes were donated to Johns Hopkins University and were analyzed in 1980 by the Maryland Geological Survey Division of Archeology. The site was marked as "Field C" on his field and described in his notebook as a 30-acre area that was rich in rhyolite blades and precontact period pottery. A total of 95 artifacts is listed in Jones's collection from 18AN406, which is curated at the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Lab.

In 1990, R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, under the direction of Thomas W. Neumann and April Fehr, conducted a Phase I survey of the Brock Bridge Project Area, slated for development with 68 new residential structures. Testing involved 232 shovel test pits, 188 of which were excavated at 20m intervals. The remaining 44 pits were excavated at 10m intervals around positive tests. Altogether, 38 shovel tests were dug in the four locations where prehistoric artifacts were found; 42 precontact artifacts were recovered from 11 of those shovel tests. These artifacts consisted of 32 unmodified flakes, five utilized flakes, one core, two amorphous bifaces, one contracting stem or lanceolate point base, and one Potomac Creek rim sherd. There was no apparent pattern in the distribution of utilized and unmodified flakes.

The portion of 18AN406 within the Brock Bridge Project Area contained a Late Woodland component. Field evidence indicated that this portion of the project area once was plowed; the artifact density is low and the distribution is discontinuous. There was no indication of features having been present: no fire-cracked rock, fragments of charcoal, or pieces of burnt/unburnt bone were found. Thus, there is no evidence of subplowzone integrity for the deposit.

References

Bastian, Tyler

1978   T.D. Jones Collection Notes 1892-1908. (Maryland Geological Survey) MHT # BA 2.

Neumann, Thomas W., and Michelle Moran

1990   Phase I Intensive Archeological Investigations of the proposed Brock Bridge Estates Project Area, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. (R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc.) MHT# AN 155.

(Edited from archeological site survey form, Maryland Historical Trust)