Featured Fragment Blog
A Not So Perfect Match
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...
Pipes and Patriotism
Featured Fragment – Showing Irish Pride in Nineteenth Century Washington, D.C. By Lauren McMillan, Ph.D. For this month’s blog we have a guest author, Dr. Lauren McMillan, Assistant Professor at the University of Mary Washington and noted pipe researcher. She is going...
More than Just Another Brick in the Wall
Featured Fragment – A Mysterious Artifact from the Squirrel Creek Site By D. Brad Hatch, Ph.D. This month’s blog continues our series highlighting the artifacts recovered from the Squirrel Creek site in Randolph County, North Carolina. On behalf of the North Carolina...
Let’s get ‘fired’ up!
Featured Fragment – Cast Iron Andirons By Kerry S. González In October 2016 Dovetail Cultural Resource Group conducted data recovery excavations at a multi-component site with the primary core representing an early-nineteenth through early-twentieth century domestic...
When Wearing a Cage Was All the Rage: Crinoline and Hoop Skirts in the 19th Century
Featured Fragment – Cage Crinoline Fragments By Kerry S. González In January 2017, Dovetail conducted excavations at the site of a proposed Riverfront Park in Fredericksburg, Virginia. This was the third time Dovetail visited the area along Sophia Street in downtown...
The Tines They Are A Changing
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...
Don’t Lose Your Temper Over Pottery – You Just Have to Find the Right Cord!
Featured Fragment – Prehistoric Pottery Shred By Dr. Mike Klien In honor of Archaeology Month we would like to highlight this sherd of prehistoric pottery recovered by Dovetail during a survey in Southside, Virginia. This Albermarle-type prehistoric pottery has large...
The “Clear” Benefit of Bottle Glass. And Wire Nails. And Sewer Pipes….
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 the...
History Buttoned Up
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...
A Different Kind of Shot Glass
Featured Fragment – Glass Syringe Plunger By Joe Blondino In June 2017, Dovetail conducted excavations on the grounds of Tudor Place, a historic Federal-style mansion in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The excavations focused on an area immediately...
Let It Bleed: A Historical Medical Device from New Castle County, Delaware
Featured Fragment – Fleam Cover By Kerry S. González In the fall of 2012 Dovetail Cultural Resource Group (Dovetail) conducted a data recovery excavation on a mid-eighteenth through late-nineteenth century domestic site (7NC-F-135/Armstrong-Rogers) in New Castle...
A is for Artifact
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...