Detail

FEATURE DATA

Feature Name: 18HO261 Feature 7
Feature Notes: Channel, south of the foundations.
Macrofeature: 18HO261 Saw Mill
Historic/Prehistoric: Historic
Social Status:
Ethnic Status: Euro-American
Household: Ridgely, Shipley
Associated Features: Features 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10
Report ID: HO109
No of Artifacts:
Catalogued?: No
Feature Type: Historic, Other
Feature Date: 1810s; 1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s
Prehistoric Feature Date:
Historic Feature Date: early 19th-early 20th century
 

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

SITE DATA

Site Number: 18HO261
County: Howard
Site Name: S. Ridgely Saw Mill
Brief Description: Early 19th- to early 20th-century sawmill; prehistoric lithic scatter
Site Type: Historic/Prehistoric
Site Notes: 18HO261 is the remains of an early 19th- to early 20th-century sawmill. Portions of the mill were still visible at the surface in 2007, including foundation, retaining walls, the raceway, a channel, the wheel pit and an unidentified narrow ditch. Other subsurface architectural features were discovered and explored with test units.
Site Date: ca 1820-1860; ca 1860-1900; ca 1900-1930; Unknown Prehistoric Context
Site Ethnic Group: Anglo-American; Native American
Site Function: Building/Foundation; Cellar; Industrial; Mill; STU/Lithic Scatter

REPORT DATA

Report ID: HO109
Author: Arford, Kelly, and Carrie Albee
Date: 2007
Title: Phase I Archeological Survey of the Proposed MD 32: Nixon’s Farm Wetland Mitigation Site (Project No. HO389A21) and Phase II Evaluation of Site 18HO261 (Project No. HO756A22) Howard County, Maryland.
Imprint: SHA Archeological Report No. 365.
  Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
   

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