Detail

FEATURE DATA

Feature Name: 18GA303 Feature 1
Feature Notes: Activity Area 1, outbuilding. Deep kitchen midden associated with posisble siltstone foundation. Associated with either main house or temporary building, kitchen or kitchen-related area.
Macrofeature:
Historic/Prehistoric: Historic
Social Status:
Ethnic Status: Euro-American
Household: James Drane
Associated Features:
Report ID: GA29
No of Artifacts: 1432
Catalogued?: Yes
Feature Type: Structural Foundation; Trash Pit/Dump
Feature Date: 1810s
Prehistoric Feature Date:
Historic Feature Date: 1806
 

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: 18GA303
County: Garrett
Site Name: James Drane House
Brief Description: Late 18th- to 20th-century English and German American homestead
Site Type: Historic
Site Notes: Four activity areas were identified and 1 outbuilding . Feature 1 (outbuilding) had a large faunal assemblage which was analyzed.
Site Date: ca 1780-1820; ca 1820-1860; ca 1860-1900; ca 1900-1930
Site Ethnic Group: Anglo-American
Site Function: Artifact Scatter; Cellar; Domestic; Farmstead; Plantation; Slave-related

REPORT DATA

Report ID: GA29
Author: Saunders, Suzanne, April Fehr, and Michelle T. Moran
Date: 1991
Title: Phase I and II Intensive Archeological Investigations of the James Drane House, Accident, Garrett County, Maryland.
Imprint: R. Christopher Goodwin and Associates, Frederick, MD.
  Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum