by Amy Simpson | Sep 19, 2019 | Archaeology, Artifact, eyewear, glasses, NCDOT, North Carolina, Squirrel Creek, Uncategorized
Featured Fragment – Historic Eyewear By Kerry S. González We’ve decided to continue our series highlighting the artifacts recovered from the Trogdon-Squirrel Creek site in Randolph County, North Carolina for the month of September. On behalf of the North Carolina...
by Amy Simpson | Sep 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
Featured Fragment – One Person’s Trash By Kerry S. González One of the questions we get asked most often with our work revolves around artifact ownership. In many states, all artifacts recovered from private land during Section 106 review rightfully belong to...
by Amy Simpson | Aug 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Featured Fragment – Huntley House Button By Kerry S. González In 2016 Dovetail conducted an archaeological excavation at the Historic Huntley House in Fairfax County, Virginia. This work was completed at the request of the Fairfax County Park Authority as part of...
by Amy Simpson | Jan 21, 2016 | Eighteenth-century dwelling, Entertainment, Household, Uncategorized
Featured Fragment – Archaeology in historic Salubria’s attic On August 23, 2011, 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Virginia with its epicenter in Louisa County. The earthquake caused massive damage to eighteenth-century Salubria, a Georgian home...
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...
