Detail

FEATURE DATA

Feature Name: 18TA355 Feature 4
Feature Notes: Possible bulkhead entry.
Macrofeature: 18TA355 Possible Bulkhead Entry
Historic/Prehistoric: Historic
Social Status: upper
Ethnic Status:
Household:
Associated Features: Features 2, 3, 8 are posts possible associated with this entrance
Report ID: TA37
No of Artifacts: 140
Catalogued?: Yes
Feature Type: Historic, Other
Feature Date: 1700s; 1710s; 1720s; 1730s; 1740s; 1750s; 1760s; 1770s; 1780s; 1790s
Prehistoric Feature Date:
Historic Feature Date: 18th 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: 1/4 inches
Faunal Analysis?: No
Paleobotanical Analysis?: No
Lithic Analysis?: No
FTIR?: No
XRF?: No
Soil Chemical Analysis?: No

SITE DATA

Site Number: 18TA355
County: Talbot
Site Name: Pleasant Valley Farm
Brief Description: Mid 17th- to early 18th- and early 18th- to late 18th-century house sites; standing late 18th-century farmstead; Early Archaic camp
Site Type: Historic/Prehistoric
Site Notes: Excavated by ASM, some remote sensing done on site. Privately owned. Soil samples were taken from the features, but not tested/analyzed. Occupied by Richard Carter, Robert Goldsborough or tenants throughout the property's history.
Site Date: ca 1630-1675; ca 1675-1720; ca 1720-1780; ca 1780-1820; ca 1820-1860; ca 1860-1900; ca 1900-1930; Early Archaic
Site Ethnic Group: Anglo-American; Native American
Site Function: Building/Foundation; Cellar; Domestic; Farmstead; Frame-built; Mansion; Plantation; Post-in-ground; Slave-related; STU/Lithic Scatter

REPORT DATA

Report ID: TA37
Author: McCarthy, John
Date: 2002
Title: The 2001 Archeological Society of Maryland Field Session. Archeological Investigations, Pleasant Valley Farm, Talbot County, Maryland, 18TA355.
Imprint: Applied Archaeology and History Associates, Inc., Annapolis.
  Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum