Detail

FEATURE DATA

Feature Name: 18BC27 Feature 36
Feature Notes: Brick-lined circular pit. Well re-used as privy, 2' 10" diameter, 5' deep.
Macrofeature:
Historic/Prehistoric: Historic
Social Status: Lower to Middle
Ethnic Status: African American
Household: James Byers, laborer (Mulatto?)
Associated Features:
Report ID: BC7A
No of Artifacts: 5000
Catalogued?: No
Feature Type: Privy; Well/Cistern
Feature Date: 1840s; 1850s; 1860s
Prehistoric Feature Date:
Historic Feature Date: mid 19th century
 

SPECIALIZED ANALYSIS

Specialized Analysis: Yes
Radiocarbon?: No
Radiocarbon Notes:
Ceramic Vessels?: Yes
Ceramic Vessel Notes: 93
Glass Vessels?: Yes
Glass Vessel Notes: 113
Tobacco Pipe Bore Diameter?: No
Tobacco Pipe Bore Diameter Notes:
Soil Screen Size:
Faunal Analysis?: No
Paleobotanical Analysis?: No
Lithic Analysis?: No
FTIR?: No
XRF?: No
Soil Chemical Analysis?: No

SITE DATA

Site Number: 18BC27
County: Baltimore City
Site Name: Federal Reserve
Brief Description: 3 block urban area in Otterbein neighborhood of Baltimore.
Site Type: Historic
Site Notes: 18th- and 19th-century buildings, well and privy remains.
Site Date: ca 1720-1780; ca 1780-1820; ca 1820-1860; ca 1860-1900; ca 1900-1930
Site Ethnic Group: African American
Site Function: Artifact Scatter; Building/Foundation; Cellar; Domestic; Midden/Dump; Privy; Row/Townhome; Spring/Well; Transportation

REPORT DATA

Report ID: BC7A
Author: McCarthy, John, and Ken Basalik
Date: 1980
Title: Summary Report of Archaeological Investigations, Federal Reserve Bank Site, Baltimore, Maryland
Imprint: MAAR Associates, Inc., Newark, Delaware.
  Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
   

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