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...
by Amy Simpson | Mar 17, 2017 | Archaeology, Artifact, Delaware, Entertainment, Houston-LeCompt, Nineteenth Century
Featured Fragment – Instrument Fragments of Houston-LeCompt By Kerry S. González In the summer of 2012 Dovetail Cultural Resource Group conducted a large-scale excavation at the Houston-LeCompt site in Middletown, Delaware sponsored by the Delaware Department of...
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...
