Detail

FEATURE DATA

Feature Name: 18CH350 Feature 2
Feature Notes: Oyster shell midden, 15' dimension. Represents either confined, organized discard, or food processing area.
Macrofeature:
Historic/Prehistoric: Historic
Social Status: Middle, Upper
Ethnic Status: Euro-American
Household: Neale
Associated Features:
Report ID: CH145
No of Artifacts: 236
Catalogued?: Yes
Feature Type: Shell Midden
Feature Date: 1800s; 1810s; 1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s
Prehistoric Feature Date:
Historic Feature Date: 19th c.
 

SPECIALIZED ANALYSIS

Specialized Analysis: Yes
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?: Yes
Paleobotanical Analysis?: No
Lithic Analysis?: No
FTIR?: No
XRF?: No
Soil Chemical Analysis?: No

SITE DATA

Site Number: 18CH350
County: Charles
Site Name: Mathews Site
Brief Description: Early and Late Woodland artifact scatter; 17th-century sherd, late 18th- to 19th-century plantation house
Site Type: Historic/Prehistoric
Site Notes: Rural domestic site occupied by Charles Neale. Middle to high economic status.
Site Date: ca 1630-1675; ca 1780-1820; ca 1820-1860; ca 1860-1900; Early Woodland; Late Woodland
Site Ethnic Group: Anglo-American; Native American
Site Function: Artifact Scatter; Building/Foundation; Cellar; Domestic; Midden/Dump; Plantation; Slave-related; Spring/Well

REPORT DATA

Report ID: CH145
Author: Hill, Philip, Katherine Rogers, Michael P. Roller, Mackenzie Caldwell, and Karen Reichardt
Date: 2010
Title: Phase III Archeological DataRecoveries of Sites 18CH350 and 18CH354, as Part of The Villages at Swan Point, Charles County, Maryland.
Imprint: Archeological Testing and Consulting, Inc., Silver Spring, MD.
  Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
   

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