by Amy Simpson | Aug 22, 2019 | Archaeology, Artifact, Brick Foundation, Central Chimney, Civil War, Creamware, Eighteenth-century dwelling, Entertainment, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg Riverfront Park, Household, Nineteenth Century, Stoneware
This month celebrates our 50th blog post and in honor of this anniversary we will be revisiting our top three most-popular blogs. To see which blogs made the cut, please follow the links below. To date, our most popular blog, reaching almost 7,000 people on Facebook...
by Amy Simpson | Jan 25, 2019 | Archaeology, Artifact, Household, Nineteenth Century, Stafford County, Stoneware
By Reagan Andersen In this month’s blog, we are highlighting a whiteware basin with a flow blue Scinde pattern from the mid-nineteenth century. The object was brought to the Dovetail lab by a curious owner from Stafford County. The vessel had once been broken into...
by Amy Simpson | Oct 19, 2018 | Archaeology, Artifact, NCDOT, Nineteenth Century, North Carolina, Squirrel Creek, Tools
A Wrought Iron Frog Gig Recovered in Randolph County, North Carolina By Kerry S. González People have been consuming frog legs for centuries. In 2013 National Geographic reported that 10,000-year-old cooked frog bones were found in England , long before the French...
by Amy Simpson | Aug 16, 2018 | Archaeology, Artifact, dental hygiene, Household, Maryland, MDOT, Nineteenth Century
A Brush with a Hog: Cleaning Your Teeth in the Nineteenth Century By Kerry Gonzalez In 2018, archaeologists from the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA), Applied Archaeology and History Associates, Inc., and Dovetail Cultural...
by Amy Simpson | Jul 12, 2018 | Archaeology, Artifact, NCDOT, Nineteenth Century, North Carolina, Squirrel Creek, Stoneware
Turning and Burning: Locally Made Pottery from the Trogdon-Squirrel Creek Assemblage By D. Brad Hatch July continues our series of posts highlighting the artifacts recovered from the Trogdon-Squirrel Creek site (31Rd1426/1426**) in Randolph County, North Carolina....