Additional Work in May on Native American Site

On Sunday May 6 CCASM had planned to continue digging STP's on a Native American site near Bryans Road here in Charles County.  Instead we did some "salvage archaeology" on adjacent land.  A septic drain field will be put in that area, and this would be our only chance to see what was there.

Seven STP's were dug.  As with the adjacent property there were fire-cracked rocks, flakes, and ceramics.  The ceramics in this area were mainly Late Woodland.  Several of the STP's to the west went through fill.  We identified the most promising STP that did not contain fill and put in a 5'x5' excavation unit near it.   The most interesting thing we found were clusters of fired cracked rocks.  At the right Jim is checking for additional rocks.  Time had run out.

Now the artifacts need to be washed and cataloged.