Cornfield (18MO76)
Site History
Cornfield (18MO76) is a Paleoindian, Middle Archaic, and Late Woodland artifact scatter located along the Potomac River in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Archaeological Investigations
This site was collected by R.E. McDaniel and Edward Hurwitz in the 1970s and 1980s. The site was recorded in 1974 by McDaniel. In 1980, Hurwitz reported having found a fluted point.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Mr. Hurwitz would visit McKee-Beshers State Wildlife Management Area to birdwatch and occasionally picked up artifacts he came across there. In 2018, he returned them to the State. He had a USGS map showing three areas where he found artifacts; each proved to be a known archaeological site (McDaniel 1974). He reported six artifacts from the 18MO76 location. One is a fluted point blade fragment (identified as Middle Paleo by Zachary Singer) that he first reported to the State in 1980, so it is now in the State's possession.
The other artifacts turned over by Mr. Hurwitz were a rhyolite stemmed point (probably Stanly), a probable Nanjemoy orthoquartzite triangular point, a slate gorget fragment, a small full-grooved greenstone axe, and a small, very thin axe that was notched, not grooved, and made from an unidentified black stone.
References
1974 Bluff, Bank and Swamp: A Survey of an Eleven Kilometer Portion of the Potomac River Left Bank Prehistoric Occupation Sites. MHT # MO 6.
