Detail

FEATURE DATA

Feature Name: 18AN500 Nail Cluster
Feature Notes: Cluster of nails, could represent debris from after abandonment or animal pen/food storage area.
Macrofeature:
Historic/Prehistoric: Historic
Social Status:
Ethnic Status: African American
Household:
Associated Features:
Report ID: AN217, AN44D
No of Artifacts:
Catalogued?: Yes
Feature Type: Historic, Other
Feature Date: 1880s; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s
Prehistoric Feature Date:
Historic Feature Date: 1880s - 1920s
 

SPECIALIZED ANALYSIS

Specialized Analysis: Yes
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?: Yes

SITE DATA

Site Number: 18AN500
County: Anne Arundel
Site Name: Fischer Site
Brief Description: Late 19th- to early 20th-century African-American tenant house ruin
Site Type: Historic
Site Notes: No features were located, but artifact concentrations were recorded & interpreted. Site contains remnants of a stone chimney foundation, garden area and slope where trash was deliberately deposited. Unknown how soils were screened.
Site Date: ca 1860-1900; ca 1900-1930
Site Ethnic Group: African American
Site Function: Building/Foundation; Domestic; Farmstead; Midden/Dump; Multi-component; Production Area; Slave-related

REPORT DATA

Report ID: AN217
Author: Hurry, Silas D.
Date: 1982
Title: Phase II Archeological Investigations at 18AN500.
Imprint: MGS File Report No. 177.
  Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
   
Report ID: AN44D
Author: Parrington, Michael, David Dashiell, Robert Hoffman, Gail Frace, and Stephanie Pinter
Date: 1985
Title: Archeological Data Recovery at Site 18AN500, a Post-bellum Black Residence in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Imprint: John Milner Associates, West Chester, PA.
  Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum