by Amy Simpson | Jul 21, 2017 | Archaeology, Artifact, Glass, Historic Tudor Place and Gardens, Medical, Nineteenth Century
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...
by Amy Simpson | Jun 23, 2017 | Archaeology, Artifact, Delaware, Eighteenth Century, Medical, Nineteenth Century
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...
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 | 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 | Feb 17, 2017 | Archaeology, Artifact, Consumption, Eighteenth Century
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...