Detail

FEATURE DATA

Feature Name: 18FR320 Feature 47
Feature Notes: Stratified layers below Feature 5, hard packed clay wth sand and gravel. Artifact count unknown.
Macrofeature:
Historic/Prehistoric: Historic
Social Status:
Ethnic Status:
Household:
Associated Features:
Report ID: FR25B
No of Artifacts:
Catalogued?: Yes
Feature Type: Historic, Other
Feature Date: 1700s; 1710s; 1720s; 1730s; 1740s; 1750s; 1760s; 1770s; 1780s
Prehistoric Feature Date:
Historic Feature Date: late 18th - 19th 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: not screened
Faunal Analysis?: No
Paleobotanical Analysis?: No
Lithic Analysis?: No
FTIR?: No
XRF?: No
Soil Chemical Analysis?: No

SITE DATA

Site Number: 18FR320
County: Frederick
Site Name: Catoctin Foundry
Brief Description: Late 18th-century mill race; early to mid-19th-century iron foundry/forge
Site Type: Historic
Site Notes: "Excavated soils passed through wire mesh only when necessary for the recover of a sample of small artifactual materials"
Site Date: ca 1720-1780; ca 1780-1820; ca 1820-1860
Site Ethnic Group:
Site Function: Black/Metalsmith; Building/Foundation; Furnace/Forge; Industrial; Mill

REPORT DATA

Report ID: FR25B
Author: Parrington, Michael, and Helen Schenk
Date: 1982
Title: A Report on the Excavation of an Ancillary Area (Site 18FR320) of the Historic Ironworking Complex at Catoctin Furnace, Frederick County, Maryland.
Imprint: John Milner and Associates, West Chester, PA.
  Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum