Pleasant Plains Farm 1 (18AN828)
Site History
The Pleasant Plains Farm 1 (18AN828) site is a late 17th- to early 18th-century artifact concentration located on a tributary of Ridout Creek in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The site is located on a parcel patented in 1669 by Capt. Wm. Fuller, one of the Puritans of Providence.
Archaeological Investigations
The site was discovered during a field visit by Anne Arundel County Archaeologist Al Luckenbach and archaeologist Esther Doyle Read in 1991. Artifacts noted during the visit included two sherds of plain tin glazed earthenware, 1 polychrome tin glazed earthenware sherd, Rhenish sprig molded blue and purple, and brown salt glazed stoneware (Rhenish or English).
References
n.d. Unearthing Our Colonial Past: Selected Articles on the Archaeology of Early Anne Arundel County, Maryland. (Lost Towns Project). Articles from Maryland Archaeology reprinted in bound form. MHT # AN 515.
2003 "17th Century Lead Cloth Seals from Anne Arundel County, Maryland." Maryland Archeology 39(1,2):17-26.
