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FEATURE DATA

Feature Name: 18CV91 8340B
Feature Notes: Unplowed midden within the stable.
Macrofeature: 18CV91 Stable Midden
Historic/Prehistoric: Historic
Social Status: High
Ethnic Status: African American, Euro-American
Household: Smith
Associated Features: 8239B, 8339B, 8340B, 8438B, 8439B, 8440B, 8538B, 8539B, 8540B, 8541B, 8638B, 8639B, 8640B, 8641B, 8738B, 8739B, 8740B, 8741B, 8838B, 8839B, 8840B, 9040B, 9140B
Report ID: XX20
No of Artifacts: 500
Catalogued?: Yes
Feature Type: Shell Midden
Feature Date: 1710s; 1720s; 1730s; 1740s; 1750s
Prehistoric Feature Date:
Historic Feature Date: Site: 1711-1754
 

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: waterscreened through 1/4 inch and window mesh
Faunal Analysis?: No
Paleobotanical Analysis?: No
Lithic Analysis?: No
FTIR?: No
XRF?: No
Soil Chemical Analysis?: No

SITE DATA

Site Number: 18CV91
County: Calvert
Site Name: Smith's St. Leonard
Brief Description: Early to mid-18th-century plantation, possible late 17th-century outbuilding
Site Type: Historic
Site Notes: Excavations on this site began in 2002 and continue through present as part of the Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum Public Archaeology program, and the park's RITES Trail development. Not all proveniences have been cataloged and/or entered into the database. As of April 2016, the total artifact count for this site exceeded 4 million; however, this count includes vast quantities of brick and oyster shell. Artifact count totals have been given where possible. Counts have been combined for postholes and molds, and postholes/molds with replacement episodes, as long as they have the same overall feature number. The following macrofeatures are used to denote known and suspected buildings on the site: Main House- remaining part of brick and mortar foundation wall for manor house Kitchen- Kitchen building Laundry- building believed to have possibly been utilized as a laundry with a drain Storehouse- ~21' square building with a full cellar with bricked cellar floor and bulkhead entrance Plastered building- building of unknown purpose with cellar filled with plaster and other debris. Only plastered building on site beside main house. Stable- the only known 18th century stable in Maryland Quarters 1- may be referred to in notes as "unknown building", probable slave quarter(s) Quarters 2- cluster of features probably related to one or more (or a series of) slave quarter buildings UID Outbuilding- a cluster of features west of the laundry building related to a UID building Pollen samples are small soil samples collected from "sealed" contexts, such as from under a larger artifact in a feature, or the contents of a complete pipe bowl.
Site Date: ca 1675-1720; ca 1720-1780
Site Ethnic Group: African American; Anglo-American
Site Function: Artifact Scatter; Building/Foundation; Cellar; Domestic; Mansion; Midden/Dump; Plantation; Possible Structure; Post-in-ground; Slave-related; Spring/Well

REPORT DATA

Report ID: XX20
Author: Field Records
Date: n.d.
Title: Original Field Records for 18CV91.
Imprint:
  Field notes on file at Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
   

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