Detail

FEATURE DATA

Feature Name: 18CV279 Feature 15
Feature Notes: Cooking pit. Artifact count includes samples.
Macrofeature:
Historic/Prehistoric: Prehistoric
Social Status:
Ethnic Status: Native American
Household:
Associated Features:
Report ID: CV36
No of Artifacts: 96
Catalogued?: Yes
Feature Type: Hearth; Prehistoric, Other
Feature Date: Middle Woodland
Prehistoric Feature Date: AD 780-920
Historic Feature Date:
 

SPECIALIZED ANALYSIS

Specialized Analysis: Yes
Radiocarbon?: Yes
Radiocarbon Notes: AD 780-920
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: screened, size unknown
Faunal Analysis?: No
Paleobotanical Analysis?: No
Lithic Analysis?: No
FTIR?: No
XRF?: No
Soil Chemical Analysis?: No

SITE DATA

Site Number: 18CV279
County: Calvert
Site Name: Compton/Patuxent II
Brief Description: Mid- to late 17th-century homelot; Woodland camp
Site Type: Historic/Prehistoric
Site Notes: Soil chemical analysis performed on 57 samples from across site. Although 5 structures and 3 fencelines were identified at this site, only a sample of features were excavated from Structures 1 & 4 and Fence 3.
Site Date: ca 1630-1675; ca 1675-1720; Contact Period; Late Woodland; Middle Woodland
Site Ethnic Group: Anglo-American; Native American
Site Function: Base Camp; Building/Foundation; Domestic; Hamlet; Homestead; Midden/Dump; Plantation; Post-in-ground; Prehistoric Burial Area; STU/Lithic Scatter

REPORT DATA

Report ID: CV36
Author: Outlaw, Alain
Date: 1989
Title: The Compton Site Circa 1651-1684, Calvert County, Maryland 18CV279.
Imprint: Louis Berger and Associates, Inc., East Orange, N.J.
  Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
   

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