Greenwood Fork Site #1 (18QU929)

Site History

The Greenwood Fork Site #1 (18QU929) is a multi-component site consisting of a Late Archaic and Middle & Late Woodland short-term camp and a 17th-century house site near Greenwood Creek in Queen Anne’s County, Maryland.

Archaeological Investigations

Archaeological investigations of this site consisted of a non-systematic surface collection by Darrin Lowery in the mid-1990s. The site consists of a large scatter of shell, fire-cracked rock, and a few fragments of brick. Historic artifacts found at the site include green wine bottle glass, white clay pipestems and bowls, gunflints, faunal bone fragments, North Devon gravel tempered ware, Sgraffito ware, fragment of Rhenish brown salt-glazed stoneware "Bellarmine" medallion, Buckley earthenware, tin-glazed earthenware, soft-paste porcelain, Chinese export porcelain, Rhenish blue & gray salt-glazed "Westerwald" stoneware, Manganese Mottled ware, nails, and buttons. Precontact artifacts include 5 stemmed points (3 chert, 1 quartz), 1 argillite Fox Creek point, 3 triangular points (1 chert, 1 quartz, 1 rhyolite), 3 other tools (1 jasper, 2 quartzite), and 5 quartz flakes.

References

Lowery, Darrin

1996   Archaeological Survey Work on Maryland's Eastern Shore During the 1996 Field Season. MHT Library # DO 51.

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

Associated Artifacts