Detail

FEATURE DATA

Feature Name: 18PR510 Root Cellar Feature
Feature Notes: Root cellar. Structure 2 in Locus 2. 5'x5' with shelf. 1.5'x2' deep.
Macrofeature:
Historic/Prehistoric: Historic
Social Status: Lower
Ethnic Status: African American
Household:
Associated Features:
Report ID: PR318
No of Artifacts:
Catalogued?: No
Feature Type: Cellar/Cellar Hole
Feature Date: 1810s; 1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s
Prehistoric Feature Date:
Historic Feature Date: antebellum
 

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:
Faunal Analysis?: No
Paleobotanical Analysis?: No
Lithic Analysis?: No
FTIR?: No
XRF?: No
Soil Chemical Analysis?: No

SITE DATA

Site Number: 18PR510
County: Prince Georges
Site Name: Willow Grove
Brief Description: Late 18th-to late 20th-century plantation site and cemetery
Site Type: Historic
Site Notes: Many of the features do not have artifact counts because feature numbers or id's were not given. Unclear which features were excavated and which were only identified.
Site Date: ca 1780-1820; ca 1820-1860; ca 1860-1900; ca 1900-1930
Site Ethnic Group: African American; Anglo-American
Site Function: Artifact Scatter; Cellar; Cemetery; Domestic; Farmstead; Frame-built; Historic Burial Area; Midden/Dump; Plantation; Slave-related; Spring/Well

REPORT DATA

Report ID: PR318
Author: Gill, Matthew H., Tonika Berkley, Nathan Workman, David Berg, Peter Holmes, and Thomas P. Barrett
Date: 2006
Title: Phase III Archaeological Data Recovery at the Willow Grove Site (18PR510) in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
Imprint: Greenhorne & O'Mara, Laurel, MD.
  Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
   

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