Myersville Rockshelter (18FR1)
Site History
The Myersville Rockshelter site (18FR1) is a Late Archaic-Late Woodland rockshelter located at the base of a bluff along Catoctin Creek in Frederick County, Maryland. The rockshelter faces west, and is about 15 feet wide, 8 feet deep, and about 10 feet high.
Archaeological Investigations
The rockshelter was excavated to a maximum depth of 12 inches in 1951 by avocational archaeologists Spencer Geasey and Gus Selckman. The two men split ownership of the archaeological artifacts they removed from the rockshelter during their excavation. The collection included triangular points, Marcey Creek pottery, Stoney Creek (?) pottery, cache blades, shell-tempered, cord-marked pottery, and coarse, rounded quartz-tempered pottery.
The site was reported to the Maryland Geological Survey by Geasey in 1970 and the Geasey artifacts were donated to the Maryland Historical Trust. There is no report on this archaeological work.
