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Pierpoint (18MO41)

Site History

Pierpoint (18MO41) is a Paleoindian to Middle Archaic lithic reduction camp, and a mid-17th- to mid-18th- century artifact scatter located on Seneca Creek in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Archaeological Investigations

This site was named for former property owner, Mrs. Henry Pierpoint. This site was recorded with the Maryland Geological Survey (MGS) in July of 1971 by collector Scott Silsby of Arlington, Virginia. Artifacts were found on the surface after plowing, and consisted of a small Paleoindian component, with some Early Archaic and much Middle Archaic material present. Extensive quartzite workshop debris. Artifacts from the colonial period (1650-1765) were concentrated in on part of the recorded site. Silsby's divided up the site area of 18MO41 into blocks, although there is some discrepancy between his records and the site boundaries as recorded by MGS. The site was also surface collected in the mid-1970s by R.E. "Mac" McDaniel.

Several fluted point fragments were found at this site, as well as a Hardaway side-notched point.

References

McDaniel, R.E.

1974   Bluff, Bank and Swamp: A Survey of an Eleven Kilometer Portion of the Potomac River Left Bank Prehistoric Occupation Sites. MHT # MO 6.

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