Archaeological Investigations at Yourhaney Plantation (38GE18)

96Artifacts consisted of a residual prehistoric sherd, a broken porphyritic rhyolite triangular point, andone square shanked nail. A piece of burnt clay was retained as a specimen and the rest werediscard in the field. A very early OCR date of 1669 was obtained from this feature. It seemsunlikely that the feature dates to that time period given its presumed association with nearby laterhistoric features.FEATURE 142 – HISTORIC POSTFeature 142 is a circular post measuring 0.8 by 0.9 feet in diameter and extending 0.8 feet intosubsoil. The fill consists of dark brown (7.5YR3/2) loamy sand. Artifacts consisted of threeresidual prehistoric sherds, one unidentified nail, one piece of Jackfield (1740-1780), one piece ofLesesne colonoware, one piece of clear bottle glass, and one copper percussion cap. Thepercussion cap post dates 1816, suggesting that the feature probably dates to the second quarterof the 19 th century. Like Feature 141, this feature retrieved an early OCR date of 1634, which ispresumed to be too early.FEATURE 145 – PREHISTORIC PITFeature 145 is an amorphous stain measuring 2.5 by 2.5 feet and extending 0.3 feet into subsoil.The soil consists of brown (10YR4/4) loamy sand. Artifacts consist of two eroded decorated finesand tempered sherds, one Mount Pleasant fabric impressed medium sand tempered sherd, threeresidual sherds, and one rhyolite flake fragment.FEATURE 147 – HISTORIC POSTFeature 147 is a circular post measuring 0.7 by 0.5 feet and extending 0.8 feet into subsoil. Thefill consists of very dark gray (10YR3/1) loamy sand. Artifacts consist of a wire nail and acorroded unidentifiable iron artifact. The presence of the wire nail suggests that this is a latehistoric feature, perhaps dating to the 20 th century. However, an OCR date of 1750 was obtainedfrom this feature.FEATURE 148 – POSTFeature 148 is a circular post measuring 0.5 feet in diameter and extending 0.4 feet into subsoil.The fill consists of black (10YR2/1) loamy sand. Only one artifact was recovered from this featureand it consisted of an eroded decorated medium sand tempered sherd.FEATURE 151 – POSTFeature 151 is an oval post measuring 0.4 by 0.3 feet and extending 0.1 feet into subsoil. The fillconsists of dark grayish brown (10YR4/2) loamy sand. No artifacts were recovered from thisfeature.FEATURE 158 – POSTFeature 158 is a circular post measuring 0.8 feet in diameter and extending 0.6 feet into subsoil.The fill consists of very dark grayish brown (10YR3/2) loamy sand. Artifacts consisted of one plainmedium sand tempered sherd and one rhyolite thinning flake.