FEATURE DATA |
| Feature Name: |
18BA314 Layer C |
| Feature Notes: |
Burn layer inside barracks. Charcoal, plaster, mortar and ash. |
| Macrofeature: |
18BA314 Barracks |
| Historic/Prehistoric: |
Historic |
| Social Status: |
Working |
| Ethnic Status: |
Irish |
| Household: |
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| Associated Features: |
Layers A, B, D |
| Report ID: |
BA93 |
| No of Artifacts: |
6859 |
| Catalogued?: |
Yes |
| Feature Type: |
Historic, Other |
| Feature Date: |
1890s |
| Prehistoric Feature Date: |
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| Historic Feature Date: |
ca 1896 |
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SPECIALIZED ANALYSIS |
| Specialized Analysis: |
No |
| Radiocarbon?: |
No |
| Radiocarbon Notes: |
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| Ceramic Vessels?: |
No |
| Ceramic Vessel Notes: |
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| Glass Vessels?: |
No |
| Glass Vessel Notes: |
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| Tobacco Pipe Bore Diameter?: |
No |
| Tobacco Pipe Bore Diameter Notes: |
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| Soil Screen Size: |
1/4 inches |
| Faunal Analysis?: |
No |
| Paleobotanical Analysis?: |
No |
| Lithic Analysis?: |
No |
| FTIR?: |
No |
| XRF?: |
No |
| Soil Chemical Analysis?: |
No |
SITE DATA |
| Site Number: |
18BA314 |
| County: |
Baltimore County |
| Site Name: |
Workers Barracks |
| Brief Description: |
mid- to late 19th-century immigrant Irish workers' housing |
| Site Type: |
Historic |
| Site Notes: |
Contains foundation ruins and 2 intacts walls in limestone quarrying town of Texas, MD |
| Site Date: |
ca 1860-1900 |
| Site Ethnic Group: |
African American; Anglo-American; Unknown Ethnicity |
| Site Function: |
Building/Foundation; Domestic; Mining-related; Privy; Quarry-related |
REPORT DATA |
| Report ID: |
BA93 |
| Author: |
Payne, Ted, Kenneth Baumgardt, and Betty C. Zebooker |
| Date: |
1994 |
| Title: |
Beaver Dam Road Widening: Phase III Archeological Investigations at Nineteenth Century Irish Workers Residential Sites: 18BA313, 314, and 325, Baltimore County, Maryland. |
| Imprint: |
MAAR Associates, Inc., Newark, Delaware. |
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Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum |
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