Pinkney Street Bottle Pit (18APx24)

Site History

The Pinkney Street Bottle Pit site (18APx24) is a pit feature excavated in the cellar of an as yet to be identified structure on Pinkney Street in Annapolis, Maryland.

Archaeological Investigations

There are no field records or archaeological report associated with the excavation of this assemblage of artifacts. The collection came to the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Lab in 2022. The artifacts were examined as part of an archaeology practicum class at St. Mary's College of Maryland in 2024 and it was during attempts to learn more about this collection that Dr. Julia King discovered that the feature may have excavated in the cellar of 43 Pinkney Street. Analysis of archaeological reports associated with work conducted on this property — the Artisan's House (18AP13)—in the 1970s does not contain any discussion of a feature that could be this bottle pit.

The feature contained a large number of artifacts dating to the second half of the 18th century, including creamware, pearlware, tin glazed earthenware, white salt glazed stoneware, Nottingham stoneware, Chinese porcelain, Buckley, coarse red bodied earthenware, white clay tobacco pipe bowls and stems, leaded air twist stemware, olive wine bottle glass, scissors, marbles and bone handled utensils.

(Written by Patricia Samford)