by Amy Simpson | Jul 17, 2020 | Archaeology, Artifact, Bullets, Civil War, Prehistoric, Stone, Tools
By Joe Blondino In June 2019, Dovetail conducted an archaeological survey of a project area located along Strawberry Run in Alexandria, Virginia. At first, the project area seemed like it might not have much to offer. Most of the project area was located along the...
by Amy Simpson | Jan 30, 2020 | Archaeology, Artifact, Civil War, Nineteenth Century, Uncategorized
By D. Brad Hatch This month’s post highlights an object recovered from a Civil War battlefield and campsite in Virginia. Rather than being associated with fighting, however, this object speaks to the daily lives of soldiers during the war. The object is a cast iron...
by Amy Simpson | Dec 12, 2019 | Archaeology, Artifact, Mystery Artifact, NCDOT, Nineteenth Century, North Carolina, Squirrel Creek, Uncategorized
By Kerry S. González For our last blog of 2019 we are once again revisiting artifacts recovered from the Trogdon-Squirrel Creek site, a mid- to late-nineteenth-century domestic site in Randolph County, North Carolina. On behalf of the North Carolina Department of...
by Amy Simpson | Oct 17, 2019 | Archaeology, Artifact, Cowrie, Eighteenth Century, Fredericksburg
Featured Fragment – Cowrie Shell By D. Brad Hatch This month’s artifact began its life somewhere in the Indian or Pacific Ocean, likely made its way to the west coast of Africa, crossed the Atlantic, then traveled up the Rappahannock River before ending up in...
by Amy Simpson | Sep 19, 2019 | Archaeology, Artifact, eyewear, glasses, NCDOT, North Carolina, Squirrel Creek, Uncategorized
Featured Fragment – Historic Eyewear By Kerry S. González We’ve decided to continue our series highlighting the artifacts recovered from the Trogdon-Squirrel Creek site in Randolph County, North Carolina for the month of September. On behalf of the North Carolina...
by Amy Simpson | Aug 22, 2019 | Archaeology, Artifact, Brick Foundation, Central Chimney, Civil War, Creamware, Eighteenth-century dwelling, Entertainment, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg Riverfront Park, Household, Nineteenth Century, Stoneware
This month celebrates our 50th blog post and in honor of this anniversary we will be revisiting our top three most-popular blogs. To see which blogs made the cut, please follow the links below. To date, our most popular blog, reaching almost 7,000 people on Facebook...
