Maddox Island 2 (18SO240)
Site History
The Maddox Island 2 site (18SO240) is a Late Archaic and Early, Middle, & Late Woodland short-term or base camp with shell, and an 18th to19th-century artifact scatter. The site is located on the Manokin River in Somerset County, Maryland.
Archaeological Investigations
This site was originally identified by Darrin L. Lowery in 1996 during a Phase I survey of Maryland's Eastern Shore. The site consisted of a dense accumulation of shell, fire-cracked rock, and the occasional brick cluster. The precontact period and historic artifacts found at the site include Mockley/Townsend ware, Potomac Creek ware, Wolfe Neck ware, a Fox Creek (side-notched) point, a Late Archaic type stemmed point, and chert, rhyolite, basalt, and quartz/quartzite and jasper flakes. Historic period artifacts included wine bottle fragments, tin-glazed earthenware, manganese mottled, black-glazed earthenware, porcelain, creamware, window glass and a gunflint flake.
In 1997, Lowery conducted another survey, recording an 18th-century domestic site within the northern portion of the area recorded as 18SO240. This site, the Maddox "Warehouse" site (18SO316), was assigned a separate number, and 18SO240 was redefined as the mostly precontact period site located to the southwest and southeast of 18SO316.
References
1996 Archaeological Survey Work on Maryland's Eastern Shore During the 1996 Field Season. MHT Library # DO 51.
