by Amy Simpson | Feb 15, 2019 | Aquia Sandstone, Archaeology, Artifact, Brick Foundation, Central Chimney, Eighteenth Century, Eighteenth-century dwelling, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg Riverfront Park, Household, Nineteenth Century
By Kerri Barile One of the most exciting finds on an archaeological site are the remains of a building or structure—evidence of people modifying their natural world to create a controlled space. Whether it is a dwelling, store, barn, or other building, the activity of...
by Amy Simpson | Jan 25, 2019 | Archaeology, Artifact, Household, Nineteenth Century, Stafford County, Stoneware
By Reagan Andersen In this month’s blog, we are highlighting a whiteware basin with a flow blue Scinde pattern from the mid-nineteenth century. The object was brought to the Dovetail lab by a curious owner from Stafford County. The vessel had once been broken into...
by Amy Simpson | Nov 30, 2018 | Archaeology, Artifact, Delaware, DelDOT, Household, Houston-LeCompt, Tools
A Partial Bone Disc Recovered from the Houston-LeCompt Site By Sara Rivers Cofield and Kerry S. González This month we are going to revisit an artifact that Dovetail recovered from their data recovery excavations at the Houston-LeCompt site in New Castle County,...
by Amy Simpson | Aug 16, 2018 | Archaeology, Artifact, dental hygiene, Household, Maryland, MDOT, Nineteenth Century
A Brush with a Hog: Cleaning Your Teeth in the Nineteenth Century By Kerry Gonzalez In 2018, archaeologists from the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA), Applied Archaeology and History Associates, Inc., and Dovetail Cultural...
by Amy Simpson | Feb 16, 2018 | Archaeology, Artifact, Household, NCDOT, North Carolina, Squirrel Creek
Featured Fragment – A Mysterious Artifact from the Squirrel Creek Site By D. Brad Hatch, Ph.D. This month’s blog continues our series highlighting the artifacts recovered from the Squirrel Creek site in Randolph County, North Carolina. On behalf of the North Carolina...
by Amy Simpson | Jan 19, 2018 | Archaeology, Artifact, Household, Nineteenth Century
Featured Fragment – Cast Iron Andirons By Kerry S. González In October 2016 Dovetail Cultural Resource Group conducted data recovery excavations at a multi-component site with the primary core representing an early-nineteenth through early-twentieth century domestic...