Detail

FEATURE DATA

Feature Name: 18BA556 Feature 4-01
Feature Notes: Portion of a stone foundation wall that underlay the rear porch of the Hensell House.
Macrofeature: 18BA556 Hensell House-Original Location
Historic/Prehistoric: Historic
Social Status:
Ethnic Status: Euro-American
Household:
Associated Features:
Report ID: BA194
No of Artifacts:
Catalogued?: No
Feature Type: Structural Foundation
Feature Date: 1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; Post-1940
Prehistoric Feature Date:
Historic Feature Date: ~1876 - 1960
 

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:
Faunal Analysis?: No
Paleobotanical Analysis?: No
Lithic Analysis?: No
FTIR?: No
XRF?: No
Soil Chemical Analysis?: No

SITE DATA

Site Number: 18BA556
County: Baltimore County
Site Name: E. Hensel House
Brief Description: Late Archaic lithic scatter; 19th- to 20th-century house site
Site Type: Historic/Prehistoric
Site Notes: The Hensel house was built c. 1879 and relocated in 1959 during the building of I-83. The house was moved west of its original location. Three visible landscape features remain and 3 features were identified archaeologically. The site yielded a total of 8,382 historic artifacts and 10 prehistoric. Prehistoric component limited to a scatter of artifacts in shovel test units.
Site Date: ca 1820-1860; ca 1860-1900; ca 1900-1930; Late Archaic
Site Ethnic Group: Anglo-American; Native American
Site Function: Artifact Scatter; Building/Foundation; Cellar; Domestic; Farmstead; Spring/Well; STU/Lithic Scatter

REPORT DATA

Report ID: BA194
Author: Child, Kathleen M., and Heather McMahon
Date: 2008
Title: Cultural Resources Investigations of Site 18BA556 for the Proposed I-83 Priceville Community Noise Barrier, Baltimore County, Maryland
Imprint: SHA Archeological Report No. 386.
  Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum