Detail

FEATURE DATA

Feature Name: 18FR788 Feature 13
Feature Notes: Square privy. Along with Features 22 and 57, one of the earliest of a series of privies on the property.
Macrofeature:
Historic/Prehistoric: Historic
Social Status:
Ethnic Status:
Household: Point of Rocks, Maryland
Associated Features:
Report ID: FR197
No of Artifacts: 25
Catalogued?: Yes
Feature Type: Privy
Feature Date: 1890s
Prehistoric Feature Date:
Historic Feature Date: TPQ 1892
 

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: 18FR788
County: Frederick
Site Name: PORMARC
Brief Description: Late 19th- to 20th-century residential town lots, church & cemetery; Middle Archaic & Early Woodland lithic scatter
Site Type: Historic/Prehistoric
Site Notes: Larger 20th-century features may have been sampled by shovel testing. Burials from cemetery noted as being re-interred at a new location.
Site Date: ca 1860-1900; ca 1900-1930; Early Woodland; Middle Archaic
Site Ethnic Group: Anglo-American; Native American; Unknown Ethnicity
Site Function: Building/Foundation; Cemetery; Church/Meeting House; Domestic; Frame-built; Historic Burial Area; Midden/Dump; Multi-component; Privy; Spring/Well; STU/Lithic Scatter; Townsite

REPORT DATA

Report ID: FR197
Author: Embrey, James W., Charles Cheek, Sara Traum, and Lynn Jones
Date: 2006
Title: Phase I and Phase II Archeological Survey of the Point of Rocks MARC Station Parking Lot Expansion, Point of Rocks, Maryland.
Imprint: John Milner and Associates, West Chester, PA.
  Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
   

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