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 | Feb 17, 2017 | Archaeology, Artifact, Consumption, Eighteenth Century
Featured Fragment – A Lead Cloth Seal from John Lee Pratt Park By Dr. D. Brad Hatch In August 2016, Dovetail conducted archaeological excavations at John Lee Pratt Park on behalf of Stafford County. During these investigations, archaeologists uncovered and excavated a...
by Amy Simpson | Sep 16, 2016 | Archaeology, Artifact, Civil War, Consumption, Glass, Household, Nineteenth Century
Featured Fragment – Nineteenth-Century Pickle Bottles By Kerry González Recent excavations by Dovetail, conducted on behalf of Stafford County, recovered two cathedral-style pickle bottles (displayed below). They were located within two separate trash pits at a Civil...