Detail

FEATURE DATA

Feature Name: 18HO149 Feature 3
Feature Notes: Historic trash midden/dump, burned. Tested with Test Unit 1. Artifact total for STP 22 and Test Unit 1 which were placed to investigate Feature 3. Entire feature not excavated.
Macrofeature:
Historic/Prehistoric: Historic
Social Status:
Ethnic Status:
Household:
Associated Features:
Report ID: HO37
No of Artifacts: 5650
Catalogued?: No
Feature Type: Shell Midden; Trash Pit/Dump
Feature Date: 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; Post-1940
Prehistoric Feature Date:
Historic Feature Date: 1st half of 20th century
 

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: 18HO149
County: Howard
Site Name: Heritage Heights
Brief Description: Early & Middle Archaic camp and late 19th- to early 20th-century house site
Site Type: Historic/Prehistoric
Site Notes: The prehistoric component to this site was a lithic scatter west of the feature 1 structure. No prehistoric cultural features were identified. Over 8,000 artifacts were recovered in Phase II fieldwork. Only 53 of these were prehistoric.
Site Date: ca 1860-1900; ca 1900-1930; Early Archaic; Middle Archaic
Site Ethnic Group: Anglo-American; Native American
Site Function: Domestic; Frame-built; Homestead; STU/Lithic Scatter

REPORT DATA

Report ID: HO37
Author: Beynon, Diane E., Jack B. Irion, Benjamin Resncik, Grace E. Henning, and Joel S. Dzodin
Date: 1990
Title: Archeological Survey of the Intercounty Connector Project. Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties, Maryland. I-270 to US 1.
Imprint: GAI Consultants, Inc., Monroeville, PA.
  Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
   

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