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NEW CASTLE COURT HOUSE PLAZA NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE TABLE OF CONTENTS 3.5.4 Burnt Area Adjacent to the 1845 Addition .............................................39 3.5.5 Cellar Hole ..............................................................................................39 3.5.6 Erosion Trenches and Drip Lines............................................................43 3.5.7 Modern Disturbance................................................................................45 3.5.8 Possible Palisade Trenches......................................................................45 3.5.9 Plaza Construction and Miscellaneous Features .....................................48 3.5.10 Portico Foundation ..................................................................................52 3.5.11 Post Holes................................................................................................52 4.0 ARTIFACT ANALYSIS...................................................................................................57 4.1 The Fauna from New Castle Court House ...........................................................57 4.1.1 Faunal Remains from Feature 19 (SU E) ................................................58 4.1.2 Faunal Remains from Feature 20 ............................................................59 4.1.3 Faunal Remains from Other Court House Contexts................................61 4.1.4 Summary and Conclusions......................................................................61 4.2 Ceramic and Glass Assemblage from Feature 20.................................................62 4.3 Ceramic Vessel Analysis from Features 23 and 37..............................................65 4.3.1 Feature 23 Ceramics................................................................................67 4.3.2 Feature 37 Ceramics................................................................................67 4.4 Noteworthy Small Finds.......................................................................................68 4.4.1 Ball Clay Pipe Bowl Assemblage ...........................................................68 4.4.2 Coral........................................................................................................69 4.4.3 Dutch Yellow Bricks...............................................................................71 4.4.4 Gun Flints/Flint Fragments .....................................................................71 4.4.5 Prehistoric Assemblage ...........................................................................71 4.4.6 Straight Pins ............................................................................................73 4.4.7 Sleevelinks ..............................................................................................75 4.4.8 Writing Slate ...........................................................................................75 4.5 Pollen Analyses ....................................................................................................75 5.0 INTERPRETATION AND CONCLUSIONS ..................................................................78 5.1 History and Archeology of Plaza Construction....................................................78 5.2 The Cultural Landscape of the Plaza....................................................................79 5.3 The Court House Lot before the 1732 Court House.............................................83 5.3.1 Scorched Earth and Brick Foundation.....................................................83 5.3.2 Cellar Hole ..............................................................................................83 5.3.3 Palisade ...................................................................................................84 5.4 The Material Culture of the Court House Plaza ...................................................87 5.5 Conclusions ..........................................................................................................88 6.0 REFERENCES CITED .....................................................................................................89 Appendix I: Artifact Inventory Appendix II: Pollen Analysis Results Appendix III: Research Data from Delaware State Museums Historical Research Files Appendix IV: Chronology: Blockhouses, Forts, and Courts in New Castle, 1670-1685 Appendix V: Personnel Qualifications
NEW CASTLE COURT HOUSE PLAZA NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Stratigraphic Units of circa 1820 East Plaza. Table 2. Stratigraphic Units of circa 1820 West Plaza. Table 3. Stratigraphic Units of circa 1845 Plaza Expansion. Table 4. Feature List Summary. Table 5. Faunal Remains Recovered from Feature 19 (SU E). Table 6. Faunal Remains Recovered from Feature 20. Table 7. Distribution of Bones from the Large Domestic Mammals from Feature 20. Table 8. Faunal Remains Recovered from Other Contexts. Table 9. Recovered Ball Clay Pipe Fragments and Assigned Dates. Table 10. Summary of Pollen Samples. LIST OF TABLES
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APPENDIX IV: CHRONOLOGY BLOCKHOUSES
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