Featured Fragment Blog
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...
The Size Does Matter!
Featured Fragment – Clipped Coins in Colonial America By Kerry S. González and Mara Katkins For this month’s blog post, we have decided to join forces with Mara Katkins with George Washington’s Ferry Farm to showcase some of the clipped coins found in the...
Musical Musings
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...
Signed, Sealed and Delivered
Featured Fragment – A Lead Cloth Seal from John Lee Pratt Park By Dr. D. Brad Hatch In August 2016, Dovetail conducted archaeological excavations at John Lee Pratt Park on behalf of Stafford County. During these investigations, archaeologists uncovered and excavated a...
“I Ain’t Gonna Study War No More, Down by the Riverside….”
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...
What’s Your Point?
Featured Fragment – Arrowheads, Spear Points, and Knives By Joe Blondino When you think of Native American artifacts, one of the first things that probably come to mind are arrowheads. But did you know that most of the artifacts that people call “arrowheads” were not...