Last week Jamie, Stephen, and I worked together to organize the artifacts we had collected so far, we cataloged them in a list by test pit/auger so here it is!
Description of artifacts:
Test pit # 1 4/23/11
0-30cm bs:
Ceramic, red brick material, burnt bone
Test pit # 1 4/30/11
0-20 cm bs:
Brick, cement, bone
20-30 cm bs: glass bead, charcoal, nails, screw, ceramic-ware
Test pit #2A
0-20cm bs: bone, brick, tile
Test pit #2B
0-10cm bs: rodent dentary, bone fragments, diagnostic bone, glass, historical nail, brick
Test pit #3A
0-20cm bs: tile, red brick, possible bone, wood
20-30cm bs: bone, brick, glass
Test pit #3B
0-10cm bs: glass (amber and clear colored), greenish glass shards, red brick, white material
10-22 cm bs: glass shards, bone bits, cement, burned ceramic, wood, seeds, tile, possible mortar, tile with dark band in the middle, burned bone
22-30cm bs: small metal binding or clamp
27 cm bs: large brick piece
Test pit #4
0-10cm bs: earthenware, ceramics, seeds, tile, cement, igneous rock, historical nail
10-20cm bs- bone, seed, brick, ceramic
20-30cm bs: nails, ceramic/earthenware, glass, brick, tile, metallic corroded material
Test pit #5
0-10cm bs: nail, cement, brick, bone shard (non-diagnostic)
10-20cm bs: bone frags, rock with scratch in it, burnt rock, tile, glass, brick, nails
20-30 cm bs: tile fragments, brick, glass, charcoal, bone
Test pit #6
0-10cm bs: brick, possible mortar, wood shards
10-20cm bs: mortar, tile, wood
Test pit #7
0-30cm bs: brick, ceramic, tile shard
Test pit #8
0-15 cm bs: 2 white outside rim ceramic sherds with blue center, possible porcelain brick, tile, processed metal, imprinted?
15-30 cm bs: brick, mortar
Test pit # 9
0-10cm bs: brick, mortar, blue glass bead, non-human rib, 2 pottery sherds, tile shard, glass
10-20 cm bs: possible obsidian flake, brick, tile, glass (milky pearlish color), bone
Test pit #10
20-30 cm bs: 2 clumps of possible mortar
Test pit #11
0-10 cm bs: mortar, brick, frags, wire hook
10-20cm bs: charcoal, tile
20-30 cm bs: pos. mortar, charcoal, brick, tile
AC #1
Surface- earthenware with floral pattern
AC #2
0-25cm bs: seeds
Auger #3
Possible coal, brick with dark band in cross section
Auger #5 0-80 cm bs
Bag 1 0-20cm: brick, pottery
20-40cm: black material, charcoal, nail, wood
40-60cm: light colored stone, metal, brick, wood
60-80cm: nail, black rock
Auger #6
0-25cm: brick, cement
25-50cm: seeds
50-75cm: seeds
Hello Kristen: this is a very helpful collation of data. I would greatly welcome any insights with respect to the assemblages above and below the asphalt layer.
ReplyDeleteI am wondering where the largest percentage of artifacts subjected to possible burning has been collected: above or below the asphalt layer?