Cemetery Hill/Walter Powell Plantation Site (7S-K-144)
Site History
The Cemetery Hill Site (7S-K-144) represents a scatter of domestic artifacts believed to have been associated with an 18th and 19th-century occupation, as well as a few precontact period artifacts. The site may have been associated with Walter Powell.
Archaeological Investigations
This site was discovered in 2005 by researchers with Heite Consulting, Inc. during a delineation survey of the Hollywood Cemetery near Williamsville in Sussex County, Delaware. While the survey recorded the locations of 15 brick vaults, suspected graveshafts and a dog burial, the work also discovered archaeological artifacts believed to be associated with an 18th- and 19th-century occupation.
Artifacts recovered during this work included white clay tobacco pipes, lead glazed coarse red earthenware, creamware, olive green bottle glass, slipped red earthenware, oyster and clam shell, Townsend fabric impressed pottery, and a jasper flake.
References
2008 A Cemetery Delineation and True Limits Survey at the Holloway Cemetery. Report on file at the Delaware State Historic Preservation Office.