Detail

FEATURE DATA

Feature Name: 18PR225 2011-1
Feature Notes: Brick footer for pre-1768 addition, southern house wall.
Macrofeature:
Historic/Prehistoric: Historic
Social Status: High
Ethnic Status: Euro-American
Household: Digges
Associated Features:
Report ID: PR591
No of Artifacts:
Catalogued?: No
Feature Type: Construction Feature, Other; Historic, Other; Structural Foundation
Feature Date: 1710s; 1720s; 1730s; 1740s; 1750s; 1760s
Prehistoric Feature Date:
Historic Feature Date: pre 1768
 

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: 18PR225
County: Prince Georges
Site Name: Melwood Park
Brief Description: 18th- to 19th-century plantation complex
Site Type: Historic
Site Notes: A complex comprised of an 18th-century main house and standing or buried remains of various outbuildings. Archaeological testing of this site was carried out in 1988, 1996, 2002 and 2011.
Site Date: ca 1720-1780; ca 1780-1820; ca 1820-1860; ca 1860-1900; ca 1900-1930
Site Ethnic Group: Anglo-American
Site Function: Artifact Scatter; Building/Foundation; Cellar; Domestic; Mansion; Midden/Dump; Plantation; Slave-related

REPORT DATA

Report ID: PR591
Author: Palus, Matthew M., and Thomas Bodor
Date: 2012
Title: Archeological Investigation of House Foundations at Melwood Park (18PR225), Upper Marlboro, Prince George’s County, Maryland.
Imprint: Ottery Group, Olney, Maryland.
  Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
   

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