by Amy Simpson | Aug 25, 2015 | Consumption, Creamware, Household
Featured Fragment—Riverfront Park During the summer of 2013 Dovetail conducted excavations at the Riverfront Park in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Many cultural features were identified, including a large icehouse which served the residents of Fredericksburg. While...
by Amy Simpson | May 11, 2015 | Consumption, Glass, Household, Tumbler, Uncategorized
Featured Fragment—Vaseline Glass In a recent excavation Dovetail Cultural Resource group found several fragments of what is known as Vaseline glass. This glass ranges in color from yellow to green and was manufactured from the 1840s to 1940. What is interesting about...
by Amy Simpson | Apr 15, 2015 | Consumption, Tin glazed
Featured Fragment–Fall Hill Avenue Finds By Kerry S. González During Phase III excavations for the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Fall Hill Avenue Expansion Project in Fredericksburg, Virginia, a small family-sized punch bowl with evidence of ceramic mending...
by Amy Simpson | Mar 9, 2015 | Consumption, Stoneware
Featured Fragment–The Marshall-Bell Kiln Site It started with a frantic phone call from an employee with the City of Fredericksburg: a construction crew downtown had uncovered a mass of stoneware fragments. The Marshall-Bell site, named after the known potters of this...
