Learning about the Posey Site and its Artifacts

Sara Rivers Cofield

At the September 1 CCAS meeting, Sara Rivers Cofield talked about the Posey Site and its artifacts.  These artifacts show how interaction with European colonists changed the material culture of Maryland’s Indians.  The Posey Site is a late 17th Century Charles County site located at the Indian Head Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center.

Sara is the Curator of Federal Collections at the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory. 

She also brought some of the Posey artifacts housed at the MAC Lab.  Below members and guests get a chance to look at shell beads, bone objects, terracotta pipe fragments, copper objects, and glass buttons among other things.

Joshua, Barbara, Elsie, Bob

image from www.jefpat.org

She was unable to bring the Posey artifacts in the image at the right since they are in a display on the first floor of the Charles County Government Building.  So the next time you visit the building be sure to look for the display.


For more information on the Posey Site, visit Posey Site Summary on the Jefferson Patterson Parks and Planning website www.jefpat.org.