Detail

FEATURE DATA

Feature Name: 18CR226 Feature 2
Feature Notes: Initial deposition could date fom late 19th century, but upper stratum continued to receive artifacts in the 20th century.
Macrofeature:
Historic/Prehistoric: Historic
Social Status: Free
Ethnic Status: African American
Household: Elizabeth Lowry
Associated Features:
Report ID: CR52
No of Artifacts: 530
Catalogued?: Yes
Feature Type: Trash Pit/Dump
Feature Date: 1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; Post-1940
Prehistoric Feature Date:
Historic Feature Date: late 19th - mid 20th c.
 

SPECIALIZED ANALYSIS

Specialized Analysis: Yes
Radiocarbon?: No
Radiocarbon Notes:
Ceramic Vessels?: Yes
Ceramic Vessel Notes: MCV 2
Glass Vessels?: No
Glass Vessel Notes:
Tobacco Pipe Bore Diameter?: No
Tobacco Pipe Bore Diameter Notes:
Soil Screen Size: 1/4 inches
Faunal Analysis?: Yes
Paleobotanical Analysis?: Yes
Lithic Analysis?: No
FTIR?: No
XRF?: No
Soil Chemical Analysis?: No

SITE DATA

Site Number: 18CR226
County: Carroll
Site Name: Lowry (Elizabeth Lowry House)
Brief Description: Mid-19th- to 20th-century African-American extant house and site
Site Type: Historic
Site Notes:
Site Date: ca 1820-1860; ca 1860-1900; ca 1900-1930
Site Ethnic Group: African American; Anglo-American
Site Function: Artifact Scatter; Building/Foundation; Cellar; Domestic; Frame-built; Homestead; Spring/Well

REPORT DATA

Report ID: CR52
Author: Jones, Lynne, Katherine L. Farnham, Charles E. Goode, Wade P. Catts, and William J. Chadwick
Date: 2009
Title: Phase III Data Recovery. Elizabeth Lowry Site (18CR226) Carroll County, Maryland.
Imprint: SHA Archaeological Report No. 351.
  Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
   

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