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T.D. Jones Field W (18BA153)

Site History

The T.D. Jones Field W site (18BA153) is a Late Archaic to Early Woodland base camp and Late Woodland/Contact period village located on a marsh near the Gunpowder River in Baltimore County, Maryland.

Archaeological Investigations

This site was initially identified in the late 19th century by Talbot D. Jones, an insurance underwriter who was also an active avocational archaeologist. 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. A total of 34 artifacts is listed in Jones's collection from 18ABA153, which is curated at the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Lab. Artifacts collected by Jones included pestles, a stone pipe stem, an axe, and hammerstones. He also noted pottery and projectile points.

In December 1976, an assessment of Jones’ reported remains was written by Joseph McNamara of the Maryland Geological Survey after review of Jones' recorded descriptions (1896-1908) and from an analysis of the artifacts in his collection from the site. The preliminary analysis of the available artifacts from the site, most of which were projectile points, revealed a chronology from Late Archaic (3000 BC–1500 BC) through Late Woodland (AD 800–AD 1600).

The Maryland Geological Survey undertook a Phase I archaeological survey of the site in 1977 in advance of planned quarrying operations. The study area, which was under cultivation, was traversed on foot and confined primarily to the one-hundred-year floodplain. The pedestrian survey was conducted along the cultivated rows at 10-foot intervals systematically covering each field. Artifacts were observed as Jones had reported in the low stretch of ground bordering the marsh. Since the large limits of the site reported by Jones encompass all of the fields surveyed, the "site" was divided by cultivated fields into five sections or lots.

Historic artifacts were widely scattered throughout all of the fields surveyed. No early colonial artifacts were observed; the majority of the historic artifacts are mid-nineteenth century and later.

References

Bastian, Tyler

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

Bennett, Carroll R.

1988   "The Evergreen Collection" (Maryland Geological Survey) MHT# MD 115.

McNamara, Joseph M.

1977   Archeological Assessment of Prehistoric Remains at the Proposed Bradshaw Sand and Gravel Quarry Site, Baltimore County, Maryland. (MGS File Report No. 72) (Maryland Geological Survey) MHT # BA 11.

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