FEATURE DATA |
| Feature Name: |
18FR788 Feature 65 |
| Feature Notes: |
Circular trash pit. |
| Macrofeature: |
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| Historic/Prehistoric: |
Historic |
| Social Status: |
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| Ethnic Status: |
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| Household: |
Point of Rocks, Maryland |
| Associated Features: |
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| Report ID: |
FR197 |
| No of Artifacts: |
147 |
| Catalogued?: |
Yes |
| Feature Type: |
Trash Pit/Dump |
| Feature Date: |
1830s |
| Prehistoric Feature Date: |
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| Historic Feature Date: |
TPQ 1837 |
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SPECIALIZED ANALYSIS |
| Specialized Analysis: |
No |
| Radiocarbon?: |
No |
| Radiocarbon Notes: |
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| Ceramic Vessels?: |
No |
| Ceramic Vessel Notes: |
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| Glass Vessels?: |
No |
| Glass Vessel Notes: |
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| Tobacco Pipe Bore Diameter?: |
No |
| Tobacco Pipe Bore Diameter Notes: |
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| 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. |
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Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum |
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