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Alberts Cave (18FR5)

Site History

The Alberts Cave site (18FR5) is a Woodland period rockshelter/cave on a steeply wooded hill located along Catoctin Creek near the town of Jefferson in Frederick County, Maryland. The rockshelter entrance is 10 feet high and 16 feet wide. It is 35 feet deep and has an unusually level floor.

Archaeological Investigations

The site was examined archaeologically by avocational archaeologist Spencer Geasey between 1952 and 1957. Artifacts were recovered to depths of 18 inches, but there was no observed stratigraphy or features. About 2/3 of the total floor area at the front of the cave was excavated. A relatively small quantity of artifacts were recovered and included Albemarle cord-marked sherds, Keyser cord-marked sherds, Fox Creek points, and triangular points.

Geasey reported the site and its location to the Maryland Geological Survey in 1970. A report on this site was published in Maryland Archeology in 1973.

References

Geasey, Spencer O.

1973   Alberts Cave (18FR5). Maryland Archeology Volume 9, Nos. 1-2., pp. 3-9.

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