Detail

FEATURE DATA

Feature Name: 18BA314 Feature 15
Feature Notes: Robbed wall trench.
Macrofeature:
Historic/Prehistoric: Historic
Social Status: Working
Ethnic Status: Irish
Household:
Associated Features:
Report ID: BA93
No of Artifacts: 147
Catalogued?: Yes
Feature Type: Construction Feature, Other; Historic, Other
Feature Date: 1900s; 1910s; 1920s
Prehistoric Feature Date:
Historic Feature Date: early 20th c.
 

SPECIALIZED ANALYSIS

Specialized Analysis: No
Radiocarbon?: No
Radiocarbon Notes:
Ceramic Vessels?: No
Ceramic Vessel Notes:
Glass Vessels?: No
Glass Vessel Notes:
Tobacco Pipe Bore Diameter?: No
Tobacco Pipe Bore Diameter Notes:
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.
  Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
   

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