by Amy Simpson | Apr 13, 2018 | Archaeology, Artifact, Consumption, NCDOT, Nineteenth Century, North Carolina, Squirrel Creek, Stoneware
Featured Fragment – Nineteenth-Century Table Settings By D. Brad Hatch, Ph.D. and Kerry S. González This month’s blog continues our series highlighting the artifacts recovered from the Trogdon-Squirrel Creek site in Randolph County, North Carolina. On behalf of the...
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 | 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 | 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...