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Phase II and Phase III Archaeological Database and Inventory
18DO173 State Hospital
Site Data
Site Number:
18DO173
Site Name:
State Hospital
Other name(s):
Prehistoric:
Historic:
Unknown:
Brief Description:
prehistoric short-term camp/lithic reduction site, late 19th-early 20th century possible farm building
Site Location and Environmental Data
Latitude:
38.56
Longitude:
-76.06
Elevation:
5
Site slope:
0-2%
Maryland Archaeo Research Unit No.:
4
SCS soil & sediment code:
Physiographic province:
Eastern Shore Coastal Plain
Terrestrial site:
Underwater site:
Ethnobotany profile:
Maritime site:
Site setting:
-Site Setting restricted -Lat/Long accurate to within 1 sq. mile, user may need to make slight adjustments in mapping to account for sites near state/county lines or streams
Topography
Floodplain:
Hilltop/bluff:
Interior flat:
Upland flat:
Ridgetop:
Terrace:
Low terrace:
High terrace:
Rockshelter/cave:
Hillslope:
Unknown:
Other:
Other Text:
Ownership
Private:
Federal:
State of MD:
Regional/county/city:
Unknown:
Nearest Surface Water
Name (if any):
Unnamed tributary of Shoal Creek
Saltwater
Ocean:
Estuary/tidal river:
Tidewater/marsh:
Freshwater
Stream/river:
Swamp:
Lake or pond:
Spring:
Min distance to water:
0
meters
Temporal Contextual Data
Paleoindian:
Archaic:
Early Archaic:
Middle Archaic:
Late Archaic:
Woodland:
MD Adena:
Early Woodland:
Middle Woodland:
Late Woodland:
Unknown prehistoric:
Y
Contact period site:
ca. 1630 - 1675:
ca. 1675 - 1720:
ca. 1720 - 1780:
ca. 1780 - 1820:
ca. 1820 - 1860:
ca. 1860 - 1900:
Y
ca. 1900 - 1930:
Y
Post 1930:
Y
Unknown historic:
Unknown context:
Y=Confirmed, P=Possible
Ethnic Associations (historic only)
Native American:
African American:
Anglo-American:
Y
Hispanic:
Asian American:
Unknown:
Other:
Other Text:
Y=Confirmed, P=Possible
Site Function Contextual Data
Prehistoric
Multi-component:
Village:
Hamlet:
Base camp:
Rockshelter/cave:
Earthen mound:
Cairn:
Burial area:
Misc. ceremonial:
Rock art:
Shell midden:
STU/lithic scatter:
Quarry/extraction:
Fish weir:
Production area:
Unknown:
Other PH context:
Historic
Urban/Rural?:
Rural
Domestic:
Homestead:
Farmstead:
Mansion:
Plantation:
Row/townhome:
Cellar:
Privy:
Industrial:
Mining-related:
Quarry-related:
Mill:
Black/metalsmith:
Furnace/forge:
Other industrial:
Transportation:
Canal-related:
Road/railroad:
Wharf/landing:
Maritime-related:
Bridge:
Ford:
Educational:
Commercial:
Trading post:
Store:
Tavern/inn:
Military:
Battlefield:
Fortification:
Encampment:
Townsite:
Unknown:
Other hist context:
Interpretive Sampling Data
Prehistoric context samples
Soil samples taken:
N
Flotation samples taken:
N
Other samples taken:
Historic context samples
Soil samples taken:
N
Flotation samples taken:
N
Other samples taken:
Diagnostic Artifact Data
Projectile Point Types
Clovis:
Hardaway-Dalton:
Palmer:
Kirk (notch):
Kirk (stem):
Le Croy:
Morrow Mountain:
Guilford:
Brewerton:
Otter Creek:
Koens-Crispin:
Perkiomen:
Susquehana:
Vernon:
Piscataway:
Calvert:
Selby Bay:
Jacks Reef (notch):
Jacks Reef (pent):
Madison/Potomac:
Levanna:
All quantities exact or estimated minimal counts
Prehistoric Sherd Types
Marcey Creek:
Dames Quarter:
Selden Island:
Accokeek:
Wolfe Neck:
Vinette:
Popes Creek:
Coulbourn:
Watson:
Mockley:
Clemson Island:
Page:
Shepard:
Townsend:
Minguannan:
Sullivan Cove:
Shenks Ferry:
Moyaone:
Potomac Creek:
Keyser:
Yeocomico:
Monongahela:
Susquehannock:
All quantities exact or estimated minimal counts
Historic Sherd Types
Earthenware
Astbury:
Borderware:
Buckley:
Creamware:
Ironstone:
16
Jackfield:
Manganese Mottled:
North Devon:
Pearlware:
9
Staffordshire:
Tin Glazed:
Whiteware:
Porcelain:
17
Stoneware
English Brown:
English Dry-bodied:
Nottingham:
Rhenish:
White Salt-glazed:
All quantities exact or estimated minimal counts
Prehistoric Artifacts
Flaked stone:
210
Ground stone:
Stone bowls:
Fire-cracked rock:
8
Other lithics (all):
1
Ceramics (all):
Rimsherds:
Other fired clay:
Human remain(s):
Modified faunal:
Unmodified faunal:
Oyster shell:
Floral material:
Uncommon Object:
Other:
All quantities exact or estimated minimal counts
Historic Artifacts
Pottery (all):
82
Glass (all):
89
Architectural:
40
Furniture:
Arms:
1
Clothing:
2
Personal items:
Tobacco related:
Activity item(s):
3
Human remain(s):
Faunal material:
Misc. kitchen:
Floral material:
Misc.:
10
Other:
All quantities exact or estimated minimal counts
Lithic Material
Jasper:
Chert:
Rhyolite:
Quartz:
Quartzite:
Ferruginous quartzite:
Chalcedony:
Ironstone:
Argillite:
Steatite:
Sandstone:
Silicified sandstone:
European flint:
Basalt:
Unknown:
Other:
Features
Dated Features
Dated features present at site:
Prehistoric Features
Mound(s):
Midden:
Shell midden:
Postholes/molds:
House pattern(s):
Palisade(s):
Hearth(s):
Lithic reduction area:
Storage/trash pit:
Burial(s):
Ossuary:
Unknown:
Other:
Historic Features
Construction feature:
Foundation:
Cellar hole/cellar:
Hearth/chimney:
Postholes/molds:
Paling ditch/fence:
Privy/outhouse:
Well/cistern:
Trash pit/dump:
Sheet midden:
Planting feature:
Road/walkway:
Depression/mound:
Burial(s):
Railroad bed:
Earthworks:
Mill raceway:
Wheel pit:
Unknown:
Other:
Radiocarbon Data
Sample 1:
+-
years BP
Reliability
Sample 2:
+-
years BP
Reliability
Sample 3:
+-
years BP
Reliability
Sample 4:
+-
years BP
Reliability
Sample 5:
+-
years BP
Reliability
Sample 6:
+-
years BP
Reliability
Sample 7:
+-
years BP
Reliability
Sample 8:
+-
years BP
Reliability
Sample 9:
+-
years BP
Reliability
Additional radiocarbon results available:
External Samples/Data
Additional raw data may be available online:
Collection curated at
MAC
Summary
The State Hospital Site (18DO173) is a prehistoric lithic reduction and resource procurement site with a small historic 19th and 20th century artifact scatter across the site. The site stretches across two knolls of an unnamed wetland that feeds Shoal Creek in Dorchester County. The site is situated on the Eastern Shore Hospital Center property. The soils present at the site correspond to Galestown loamy sand and Woodstown sandy loam. Overall, the site measures approximately 220 m north-south by 150 m east-west and lies at an elevation of 20 m above mean sea level. Site 18DO173 was first identified in 1988 during a survey of the Eastern Shore Hospital Center property by the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA). Work at that time consisted of uncontrolled surface collection from the portion of the site lying south of the wetland (later designated as Field 2). A total of 18 prehistoric items were collected. These included 16 pieces of debitage and 2 biface fragments. Only 1 historic artifact was recovered (a sherd of 19th blue transfer-printed refined earthenware). A second Phase I survey of the Eastern Shore Hospital Center property was conducted in 1997. Surveying a low knoll lying to the north of the wetland feeding Shoal Creek, a small prehistoric scatter was identified. Three shovel tests spaced 20 m apart located 6 pieces of debitage and 1 fire-cracked rock (FCR). Due to its proximity to the site as identified in 1988, the knoll (designated Field 1) was included to expand the boundaries of 18DO173. Phase II evaluation of the site was requested by the Maryland Historical Trust in order to delineate the vertical and horizontal prehistoric component and to determine whether the component had integrity and research potential. Phase II testing commenced in 1998. The goals were to delineate the boundaries of the prehistoric site and to determine the temporal and functional characteristic of the site. The site was re-identified and horizontally delineated via pedestrian survey along transects spaced 3 m apart. Surface collection within 6 X 6 m blocks in areas with good surface visibility was also executed. Five 1 X 1 m test units that were evenly distributed across the site area were also excavated. Testing recovered 194 prehistoric artifacts from 18DO173. There were 101 flakes, 8 cores, 67 utilized flakes, 1 other lithic (sandstone hammerstone), 3 unifacial scraper tools, and 7 bifaces, none of which were diagnostic. There were 7 FCR fragments. Quartz is the predominant material type followed by chert, jasper, and quartzite. Chert, quartz, and quartzite pebbles and cobbles were particularly prevalent near the south bank of the Choptank River. A total of 193 historic artifacts were recovered during the Phase II investigations. There were 3 activity-related items (a piece of lamp glass and 2 flower pot fragments). There were 40 architectural items (3 ceramic insulator fragments, 5 plumbing items, 2 ceramic tile fragments, 1 unidentified ceramic fragment, 23 shards of window glass, 1 brick fragment, 1 spike,1 wire nail, and 2 unidentified nail fragments). Clothing items included 1 glass button and 1 brass button. There were 137 kitchen items (53 bottle glass fragments, 3 table glassware fragments, and 1 redware, 9 domestic brown stoneware, 17 late porcelain, 16 ironstone, 9 pearlware, 21 whiteware, 2 yellow ware, 2 domestic gray stoneware sherds, and 4 unidentified sherds). Miscellaneous items consisted of 10 unidentified pieces of glass. There was also 1 arms-related item (English gunflint). Although the historic component appears to concentrated in Field 2, no definable concentrations were apparent. Artifacts from the State Hospital Site (18DO173) were recovered primarily from the surface and the plowzone. The site has been disturbed by agricultural activity. With this disturbance and the lack of diagnostic artifacts in the prehistoric assemblage, the site has diminished the potential for asking questions dealing with prehistoric activity on the Delmarva Peninsula. Due to the spatially dispersed nature of the historic assemblage at the site, this component lacks stratigraphic integrity and further research potential.
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