by Amy Simpson | May 26, 2017 | Archaeology, Artifact, Consumption, Eighteenth Century, Fredericksburg, Household, Nineteenth Century, Stoneware
Featured Fragment – Marriott Alphabet Cup By Kerry S. González and Dr. Kerri S. Barile For this month’s blog we are reaching way back into the archives to one of Dovetail’s first large-scale projects. In early 2006, the City of Fredericksburg and the Inns of...
by Amy Simpson | Jan 27, 2017 | Archaeology, Artifact, Civil War, Consumption, Eighteenth Century, Fredericksburg, Household, Nineteenth Century
Featured Fragment – Archaeology in Downtown Fredericksburg By Joe Blondino and Dr. Kerri Barile In January 2017, the City of Fredericksburg sponsored an archaeological dig at the site of the new Riverfront Park on Sophia Street in the downtown historic district. The...
by Amy Simpson | Oct 21, 2016 | Archaeology, Artifact, Folklore, Household, Nineteenth Century
Featured Fragment – Salubria’s Hidden Shoe By M. Chris Manning The slipper shown to the left was recovered from an ‘excavation’ in the attic at Salubria, a mid-eighteenth-century Georgian home in Culpeper County, Virginia. This shoe is believed to have been...
by Amy Simpson | Sep 16, 2016 | Archaeology, Artifact, Civil War, Consumption, Glass, Household, Nineteenth Century
Featured Fragment – Nineteenth-Century Pickle Bottles By Kerry González Recent excavations by Dovetail, conducted on behalf of Stafford County, recovered two cathedral-style pickle bottles (displayed below). They were located within two separate trash pits at a Civil...
by Amy Simpson | Jun 10, 2016 | Archaeology, Artifact, Consumption, Historic Tudor Place and Gardens, Household, Nineteenth Century, Stoneware
Featured Fragment – Stoneware Sleuthing By Joe Blondino During the summer of 2015, Dovetail conducted exploratory excavations on the grounds of Tudor Place, a historic Federal-style mansion in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The excavations focused on...
by Amy Simpson | Apr 13, 2016 | Consumption, Eighteenth Century, Household, Houston-LeCompt, Pearlware
Featured Fragment – Mended Pearlware Tea Bowl By Kerry S. González Several hundreds of years before tea was being consumed in the Americas (and even Britain), it was widely consumed in Asia. European traders residing in Asia during the seventeenth and eighteenth...