by Amy Simpson | Aug 6, 2021 | Arrowhead, Arrowheads, Artifact, Delaware, Prehistoric, Projectile Points, Tools
By: Andy Martin This Fox Creek or Selby Bay (if you’re from Virginia) projectile point was recovered from the John Dickinson Plantation in southern Delaware. Why is this extra cool? Fox Creek/Selby Bay projectile points are a relatively common point type that are...
by Amy Simpson | Jun 29, 2021 | Archaeology, Arrowhead, Artifact, Delaware
By: Bill Liebeknecht A copper alloy projectile point or “arrowhead” was recently recovered by Dovetail Cultural Resource Group during an archaeological survey at the John Dickinson Plantation near Dover, Delaware. Work was conducted on behalf of the Delaware Division...
by Amy Simpson | May 21, 2021 | Archaeology, Arrowhead, Arrowheads, Artifact, Delaware, Prehistoric, Projectile Points, Tools
By: Andy Martin Today we’re talking about one of the less-discussed pieces of the Native American/pre-contact tool kit…the knife. There has been seemingly endless amounts of ink spilled about projectile points and axes and pottery but believe me (I’ve looked) there’s...
by Amy Simpson | Sep 23, 2020 | Archaeology, Artifact, Delaware, Dutch, Kookpot, Seventeenth Century
Featured Fragment –A Kookpot from Casimir By William Liebeknecht Our story starts in 1651 with the construction of Fort Casimir, a colonial fortification built by the West India Company in what is now New Castle, Delaware. The four-sided fort was only lightly equipped...
by Amy Simpson | Nov 30, 2018 | Archaeology, Artifact, Delaware, DelDOT, Household, Houston-LeCompt, Tools
A Partial Bone Disc Recovered from the Houston-LeCompt Site By Sara Rivers Cofield and Kerry S. González This month we are going to revisit an artifact that Dovetail recovered from their data recovery excavations at the Houston-LeCompt site in New Castle County,...
by Amy Simpson | Nov 24, 2017 | Archaeology, Armstrong-Rogers, Artifact, Consumption, Delaware, Eighteenth Century, Eighteenth-century dwelling, Houston-LeCompt
Featured Fragment – Eighteenth-Century Forks By Kerry S. González Dovetail Cultural Resource Group recently installed two exhibits highlighting archaeological finds on behalf of the Delaware Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration: one at...
