2011 ASM Field Session

The 2011 ASM Field Session was June 10 – 20 at the Barton Site in Allegany County, and three of our CCASM members were able to attend.

Rich troweling

Belinda with ceramic sherd

Carol removing post mold

Rich is troweling in one of the northern units looking for additional sections of a Page palisade.  Belinda is holding a piece of pottery that may predate the Page occupation and was found in one of the southern units.  Carol is working in a unit with part of the deep Susquehanna storage pit (later trash pit) that cut through a Page occupation feature.

Looking south

Looking north

Roy Brown

Bob Wall and Charlie Hall

Dr. Robert Wall of Towson University is the principal investigator.  He is pictured at right with Dr. Charlie Hall, the
Maryland State Terrestrial Archeologist.

Also pictured at the right is Roy Brown, the president of the Western Maryland Chapter of ASM that has been volunteering with Dr. Wall at the site for the past several years. Roy provided the atlatls and a target that we tried to hit.

The Barton site is part of a series of prehistoric sites that contain artifacts dating from the Paleo-Indian period to Contact times. It was purchased in 2002 by The Archaeological Conservancy, a non-profit organization dedicated to acquiring and preserving archaeological sites.

Click on  Barton Village Site to find out more about the site and about work done there in previous years.