April is Maryland Archeology Month

Maryland Archeology Month

Events in Charles County

• April 6 - 7pm
  CCASM Meeting at La Plata , MD
  Sands of Time: Sedimentation of Port Tobacco
  for more details go to April 6 CCASM Meeting
  
  
• April 15 - 7pm
  Talk cosponsored by CCASM and CSM Friday Lecture Series at La Plata Campus
  Sunk Beneath the City Streets: The Excavation, Analysis, and Care of the World Trade Center Ship
  for more details read CSM Friday Lectures Celebrate Maryland Archeology
  
  
• April 30 - 9am - 3pm
  Port Tobacco, MD
  Come and see a historical site being excavated.  Members of CCASM and ASM members will be excavating near the Burch House in Port Tobacco.  The site was occupied from the mid-1700's through the twentieth century.

Other Maryland Archeology Month Events of note

• April 9 - 9am - 3pm
  ASM Annual Spring Symposium on Archeology at Crownsville, MD
  The Uses of Forensic Sciences, the Natural Sciences, and New Technologies in Support of Archeological Research
  for more details go to http://www.marylandarcheology.org/symposium.php
  
  
• April 16 - 10am - 4pm
  Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum. St. Leonard, MD
  Discovering Archeology Day--Discover the what, where, and how’s of archaeology!  Also watch people making stone tools the way they have for thousands of years.
  CCASM will have a table there.
  
  

Go to Maryland Archeology Month 2011  for all events in Maryland during Archeology Month

Searching for the Seventeenth Century Wollaston Manor

Kelly Copper

At the March 2 CCASM meeting, Kelly Cooper provided an overview of the 2008 excavations conducted along the Potomac River in Charles County.  Local lore has often credited this area to be the location of the original Wollaston Manor house built by Captain James Neale in 1661.  However, the artifacts and the dimensions of the two dwellings excavated indicated that these buildings were not Wollaston Manor.

Kelly is the Education Coordinator for Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum.  She had participated in the 2008 excavations.

The winners of the raffle for the classic ASM t-shirts were Kitty Frick and  Anne Zabel.

Attendance:28