Hollingsworth Farm (18CE29)
The Hollingsworth Farm site (18CE29) is an Archaic to Woodland period base camp located near Elkton Landing in Cecil County, Maryland.
Archaeological Investigations
In 1985, Henry Ward visited 18CE29-3, examined the Dilks collection and used it to analyze the sites. Jay Custer & Henry Ward (U Delaware) surveyed quarry-related sites through pedestrian survey, interviews, and Phase II testing. Functional analysis suggests the habitations were semi-permanent in nature and were established for the harvesting of seasonal food resources. The site was probably inhabited annually for a limited period during the summer and fall. Several possible precontact period features were identified: a dish-shaped charcoal filled feature may be a hearth, two small, stained areas, a pebble and cobble filled depression, and a feature that contained Mockley, Coulbourn, and Wolf Neck sherds.
A total of 2647 artifacts were recovered (2386 prehistoric, 261 historic). Artifacts included fire cracked rock, jasper debitage, cobble flint debitage, and quartz and quartzite debitage, a nutting stone, chopper, a pestle, knives, scrapers, utilized lithics, and ceramics. Also found were 2 Madison points, Wolf Neck cord-marked, Coulbourn cord-marked & net-impressed, Mockley cord-marked & net-impressed ceramics, 1 Rossville point, 1 Marcy Creek and 1 Dames Quarter ceramics, Bare Island points, Brewerton points, and 2 broken bifaces that appear to be Paleoindian.
During the 1981 Phase III work, a number of features were found, including 7 possible prehistoric post holes, 13 small pits, 37 tree falls, and 2 large pits.
References
1980 The Hollingsworth Farm Site: Archeological Survey Phase II Final Report, Cecil County, Maryland. (CE 9B).
1981 Archeological Data Recovery at the Hollingsworth Farm Site (18CE29), Cecil County, Maryland. (CE 9C).
1982 Intensive Archeological Investigations at the Hollingsworth Farm Site, Elkton, Maryland. Maryland Archeology 18(1):9-28. (CE 9D).
1986 The Prehistoric Sites of Elks Landing: A Reanalysis of the Dilks Collections from 18CE29, 18CE30, and 18CE31. (CE 22).
