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Archaeological Testing at the John Brice II (Jennings-Brice) House, 18AP53, 195 Prince George Street, Annapolis, Maryland
1990 •
Barbara Little
Archaeological Excavations on the Long Green (18TA314), 2005-2008, Talbot County, Maryland, 2009
2009 •
Stephanie Duensing
The 2009 Field Session of the Archeological Society of Maryland: Site Examinations at Port Tobacco
2009 •
April M. Beisaw
Excavations at St. Anne's Churchyard, 18AP43, Church Circle, Annapolis, Maryland
1988 •
Laura Galke
Report on Archaeological Investigations Conducted at the St. Mary's Site (18AP45), 107 Duke of Gloucester Street, Annapolis, Maryland, 1987-1990
2002 •
Elizabeth Kryder-Reid
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE FISHING BAY AND FAIRMOUNT STATE WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREAS, DORCHESTER AND SOMERSET COUNTIES, MARYLAND
Darrin Lowery
This report summarizes the results of an archaeological survey conducted within the Fishing Bay State Wildlife Management Area of Dorchester County, Maryland and the Fairmount State Wildlife Management Area of Somerset County, Maryland. Both wildlife management areas fall under the control of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and represent two large tracts of inundated upland in the western section of the Delmarva Peninsula. The study area encompasses a portion of the coast associated with the Tangier Sound macro-watershed. A shoreline survey was conducted along the coastline to document any evidence of archaeological resources and to gauge the erosion threat to these archaeological resources. Archaeological sites along shorelines are subjected to numerous natural processes that can affect the degree of coastal erosion. In an attempt to help cultural resource managers who need to evaluate and assess shoreline erosion on a site-by-site basis, summaries of these natural processes are presented in this report. Based on these natural processes and factors, a formal shoreline erosion methodology has been developed as a result of this research and it is also presented in this report.
Phase II Archaeological Testing on Wye Greenhouse (18TA314), Talbot County, Maryland, 2008
Stephanie Duensing
From October 27, 2008 to November 24, 2008 staff from the Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), Archaeology in Annapolis Project, conducted archaeological testing on the Wye House Greenhouse (18TA314), Talbot County, Maryland. This Phase II investigation has been conducted at the request of the Greenhouse’s current owner, Mrs. Mary Tilghman, prior to planned Greenhouse foundation stabilization efforts. The project area for this Phase II archaeological investigation comprises the immediate exterior perimeter of the Wye Greenhouse foundation. Seven test units were excavated in the course of this project to evaluate archaeological integrity and to evaluate the potential effects of planned stabilization efforts on archaeological resources. In addition to questions of archaeological integrity, research questions guiding this project focused on the architectural development of the Wye Greenhouse as well as its social use, both by members of the Lloyd family and the plantation’s enslaved African-American inhabitants. Background historical research and oral histories differ concerning the Greenhouse’s initial date of construction. Historical research suggests a construction date of the c. 1770s, while oral histories suggest an initial date of construction of c. 1740s. Archaeological testing has shown that the Greenhouse underwent two major developmental phases—with the main block of the Greenhouse having been constructed in the 1770s and the East and West Wings and hypocaust system added in the mid 1780s. In addition to providing evidence of the Greenhouse’s structural change, levels and features excavated in the course of this project have shed light on the social use of the Wye Greenhouse throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Artifact deposits analyzed in this report detail the Lloyd family’s use of the Greenhouse as both a social space and as a symbol of 18th century opulence. Artifact analyses also shed light on the use of the Greenhouse’s north shed as a slave quarter from the 1790s through the 1840s. Testing in the course of this project has concluded that there is a high degree of archaeological integrity within the project’s area of potential effect. In addition, testing has determined that intact archaeological resources have the distinct potential to add a considerable depth of historical knowledge concerning the Greenhouse’s structural change and social use throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Archaeological evidence detailed in this report should be read as supporting evidence for the Greenhouse’s inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.
Archaeological Excavation of State Circle, Annapolis, Maryland
1990 •
Esther Doyle Read
Results of the 1985 Excavations at Shiplap House (18AP30), 18 Pinkney Street, Annapolis, Maryland
1993 •
Paul Shackel
ACS Consultants
PHASE II ARCHAEOLOGICAL TESTING OF THREE PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES (18FR146, 18FR703, AND 18FR704), WILLOW, BROOK.FARMS SUBDIVISION FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND
1995 •
Hettie Ballweber RPA
The purpose of this transmittal is to report upon the results of Phase II Archaeological Testing at three prehistoric Amerindian sites (18FR146, 18FR703, and 18FR704) identified during a Phase I Archaeological Survey of the proposed Willowbrook Farms Subdivision located along Tuscarora Creek in Frederick County, Maryland. The testing was performed to ascertain whether or not any of the sites met the National Register of Historic Places eligibility criteria. The project is located in the Western Division of the Piedmont Physiographic Province and within the Council for Maryland Archeology Research Unit 17. In spite of the fact that tools, projectile points and fragments, and debitage were found at all of the sites during the Phase I Survey, during the Phase II Testing, all of the sites yielded few additional cultural specimens consisting of rhyolite and quartz debitage suggesting possible campsites where tools were manufactured/resharpened. No additional diagnostic artifacts were recovered and no features were identified at any of the sites. As presumably campsites/short-term habitation sites with no confirmed cultural features, the sites are not considered to be culturally significant. Consequently, the sites are · concluded to be ineligible for inclusion in the National Register and no additional cultural resources work is recommended for the project.
