Detail

FEATURE DATA

Feature Name: 18BC133 Feature 1
Feature Notes: Privy shaft fill, brick foundation, 3 temporal periods. Stratum 1= 1930s-40s fill with demolition debris (453 artifacts). Strata 2 and 3= late 19th/early 20th century domestic debris (~3,500 artifacts). Stratum 4= c. 1860s-70s militia group fill (43 artifacts).
Macrofeature:
Historic/Prehistoric: Historic
Social Status:
Ethnic Status:
Household:
Associated Features: Feature 3
Report ID: BC128
No of Artifacts: 4009
Catalogued?: Yes
Feature Type: Privy
Feature Date: 1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s
Prehistoric Feature Date:
Historic Feature Date: mid 19th-mid 20th century
 

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: 1/4 inches
Faunal Analysis?: Yes
Paleobotanical Analysis?: Yes
Lithic Analysis?: No
FTIR?: No
XRF?: No
Soil Chemical Analysis?: No

SITE DATA

Site Number: 18BC133
County: Baltimore City
Site Name: The Independent Grays' Privy
Brief Description: Late 19th- to early 20th-century domestic privy
Site Type: Historic
Site Notes: Volunteer militia group owned 2 lots on High Street where privy located (1845-1870). 30'x60' armory building constructed in 1845 by Independent Grays'. Rowhouses then constructed.
Site Date: ca 1860-1900; ca 1900-1930
Site Ethnic Group: Anglo-American
Site Function: Military; Possible Structure; Privy

REPORT DATA

Report ID: BC128
Author: Williams, Martha R., Nora Shennan, and Suzanne Sanders
Date: 2000
Title: Archeological Investigations at the Juvenile Justice Center, Baltimore, Maryland.
Imprint: 4 vols. R. Christopher Goodwin and Associates, Inc.
  Report on file at Maryland Historical Trust and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
   

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