Detail

FEATURE DATA

Feature Name: 18PR416 Feature 4
Feature Notes: Sheet midden related to demolition of house.
Macrofeature:
Historic/Prehistoric: Historic
Social Status: Middle
Ethnic Status: Euro-American
Household: Robinson
Associated Features:
Report ID: PR473
No of Artifacts: 114
Catalogued?: Yes
Feature Type: Shell Midden
Feature Date: 1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s
Prehistoric Feature Date:
Historic Feature Date: late 19th - early 20th c.
 

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: 18PR416
County: Prince Georges
Site Name: Pheasants Thicket
Brief Description: 19th- to 20th-century farmstead
Site Type: Historic
Site Notes: Additional features identified, but not excavated. Excavations identified materials dating from late 19th- to the 20th centuries
Site Date: ca 1780-1820; ca 1820-1860; ca 1860-1900; ca 1900-1930
Site Ethnic Group: Anglo-American
Site Function: Artifact Scatter; Building/Foundation; Domestic; Farmstead; Frame-built; Midden/Dump; Slave-related; Spring/Well

REPORT DATA

Report ID: PR473
Author: Shellenhammer, Jason P., Ryun Papson, and Phillip J. Hill
Date: 2007
Title: A Phase II Archeological Evaluation of Pheasant’s Thicket (Site 18PR416) Located Near Robert Crain Highway (Route 301) in Brandywine, Prince George’s County, Maryland.
Imprint: Archeological Testing and Consulting, Inc., Silver Spring, MD.
  Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum