Detail

FEATURE DATA

Feature Name: 18MO609 Feature 2
Feature Notes: Burn layer associated with Structure A.
Macrofeature: 18MO609 Structure A
Historic/Prehistoric: Historic
Social Status: Working class
Ethnic Status: African American
Household: Malinda Jackson or son John T. Adams
Associated Features: Features 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, firebox
Report ID: MO278
No of Artifacts: 70579
Catalogued?: Yes
Feature Type: Historic, Other
Feature Date: 1910s
Prehistoric Feature Date:
Historic Feature Date: c. 1915
 

SPECIALIZED ANALYSIS

Specialized Analysis: Yes
Radiocarbon?: No
Radiocarbon Notes:
Ceramic Vessels?: Yes
Ceramic Vessel Notes: 146 kitchen ceramic vessels on site; 6 toiletry vessels
Glass Vessels?: No
Glass Vessel Notes:
Tobacco Pipe Bore Diameter?: No
Tobacco Pipe Bore Diameter Notes:
Soil Screen Size: 1/4 inches
Faunal Analysis?: Yes
Paleobotanical Analysis?: Yes
Lithic Analysis?: No
FTIR?: No
XRF?: No
Soil Chemical Analysis?: No

SITE DATA

Site Number: 18MO609
County: Montgomery
Site Name: Jackson Homestead/Fairland Branch
Brief Description: Late 19th- to early 20th-century African-American homestead; Early to Late Archaic and Early and Late Woodland short-term camp
Site Type: Historic/Prehistoric
Site Notes: A working class African American home destroyed by fire around 1915 is major component of the site.
Site Date: ca 1820-1860; ca 1860-1900; ca 1900-1930; Early Archaic; Early Woodland; Late Archaic; Late Woodland; Middle Archaic
Site Ethnic Group: African American; Native American
Site Function: Domestic; Homestead

REPORT DATA

Report ID: MO278
Author: Furgerson, Kathleen M., Varna Boyd, Carey O'Reilly, Tracy Formica, and Anthony Randolph
Date: 2011
Title: Phase II and III Archaeological Investigations of the Fairland Branch Site and the Jackson Homestead (18MO609). Intercounty Connector Project, Montgomery County, Maryland.
Imprint: 3 vols. SHA Archeological Report No. 426.
  Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum