by Amy Simpson | Jun 15, 2018 | Archaeology, Artifact, Consumption, Glass, Medical, Nineteenth Century, North Carolina, Squirrel Creek
Featured Fragment – Mexican Mustang Liniment for Man and Beast: Patent Medicines at the Squirrel Creek Site By Michelle C. Salvato This month we are once again returning to our series highlighting the artifacts recovered from the Trogdon-Squirrel Creek site...
by Amy Simpson | Mar 16, 2018 | Archaeology, Artifact, Nineteenth Century, Washington D.C.
Featured Fragment – Showing Irish Pride in Nineteenth Century Washington, D.C. By Lauren McMillan, Ph.D. For this month’s blog we have a guest author, Dr. Lauren McMillan, Assistant Professor at the University of Mary Washington and noted pipe researcher. She is going...
by Amy Simpson | Dec 22, 2017 | Archaeology, Artifact, Cage Crinoline, Civil War, clothing, Fredericksburg, Nineteenth Century
Featured Fragment – Cage Crinoline Fragments By Kerry S. González In January 2017, Dovetail conducted excavations at the site of a proposed Riverfront Park in Fredericksburg, Virginia. This was the third time Dovetail visited the area along Sophia Street in downtown...
by Amy Simpson | May 26, 2017 | Archaeology, Artifact, Consumption, Eighteenth Century, Fredericksburg, Household, Nineteenth Century, Stoneware
Featured Fragment – Marriott Alphabet Cup By Kerry S. González and Dr. Kerri S. Barile For this month’s blog we are reaching way back into the archives to one of Dovetail’s first large-scale projects. In early 2006, the City of Fredericksburg and the Inns of...
by Amy Simpson | Mar 17, 2017 | Archaeology, Artifact, Delaware, Entertainment, Houston-LeCompt, Nineteenth Century
Featured Fragment – Instrument Fragments of Houston-LeCompt By Kerry S. González In the summer of 2012 Dovetail Cultural Resource Group conducted a large-scale excavation at the Houston-LeCompt site in Middletown, Delaware sponsored by the Delaware Department of...