by Amy Simpson | Jun 15, 2018 | Archaeology, Artifact, Consumption, Glass, Medical, Nineteenth Century, North Carolina, Squirrel Creek
Featured Fragment – Mexican Mustang Liniment for Man and Beast: Patent Medicines at the Squirrel Creek Site By Michelle C. Salvato This month we are once again returning to our series highlighting the artifacts recovered from the Trogdon-Squirrel Creek site...
by Amy Simpson | May 18, 2018 | Archaeology, Artifact, Civil War, Medical
Featured Fragment – Civil War-Era Tourniquet Clamp from Henrico County, Virginia By Kerry S. González For hundreds of years the tourniquet has been used on extremities, primarily arms and legs, in an effort to stop hemorrhaging during an amputation. For this month’s...
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...
