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Patterson I (18CV65)

Site History

The Patterson I site (18CV65) is an Early, Middle, and Late Archaic camps and an Early, Middle, and Late Woodland shell midden/village located on the Patuxent River at Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum in Calvert County, Maryland.

Archaeological Investigations

This site was originally recorded in 1981 by archaeologists Michael Smolek and Wayne Clark during a survey of the Patterson property. Later that year, Laurie Cameron Steponaitis surface collected the site during a study of the Patuxent River drainage, recovering 219 artifacts including 105 flaked stone, and 2 other stone artifacts, and 112 ceramic sherds. Point types recovered included Jacks Reef pentagonal and a rhyolite unclassified point fragment. Other lithics included bifacial and unifacial worked flakes, quartz and quartzite cores, secondary and tertiary flakes and hammerstones. Pottery types found included Mockley cord-marked, Mockley net-impressed, Mockley plain, Rappahannock fabric impressed, Rappahanock smoothed, Rappahannock incised, Sullivan cord marked, Sullivan plain, and Potomac Creek plain.

References

Clark, Wayne, and Michael Smolek

1981   Archaeological Survey of the Patterson Property. MHT# CV 14.

Steponaitis, Laurie Cameron

1983   An Archeological Study of the Patuxent Drainage. MHT Manuscript Series No. 24 (SUNY Binghamton) MHT # AN 50.

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