Archaeological Investigations at Yourhaney Plantation (38GE18)

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT YOURHANEY PLANTATION103mixture of brown (10YR4/3), yellowish brown (10YR5/4), and light yellowish brown (10YR6/4)loamy sand. Artifacts consisted of one Thoms Creek brushed fine sand tempered pottery and onehand wrought nail.FEATURE 200 – PREHISTORIC POSTFeature 200 is a somewhat rounded post measuring 0.5 feet in diameter and extending 0.8 feetinto subsoil. The fill is a mottled mixture of very dark grayish brown (10YR3/2), dark grayishbrown (10YR4/2), and yellowish brown (10YR5/4) loamy sand with flecks of charcoal. Oneartifact was recovered from this feature, which was a Woodland plain medium sand temperedsherd.FEATURE 201 – HISTORIC POSTFeature 201 is a squarish historic post measuring 0.9 by 0.9 feet and extending 0.6 feet intosubsoil. The fill consists of black (10YR2/1) loamy sand. Artifacts consisted of two plain fine sandtempered sherds, 14 oyster shell fragments, and 450 grams of brick and mortar (discarded in thefield).FEATURE 202 – HISTORIC POSTFeature 202 is a square post measuring 0.6 by 0.6 feet and extending 0.6 feet into subsoil. Thefill consists of very dark grayish brown (10YR3/2) loamy sand. Artifacts consisted of four pieces ofbrick, one hand wrought nail, one cut nail, one piece of undecorated creamware (1762-1820),one clear bottle glass fragment, and a 5/64-inch bore ball clay pipe stem. The cut nail andcreamware suggest an early 19 th century origin to this feature.FEATURE 204 – PREHISTORIC POSTFeature 204 is a circular post measuring 0.8 by 0.7 feet and extending 0.9 feet into the subsoil.The fill is a mottled mixture of very dark grayish brown (10YR3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR4/2),and yellowish brown (10YR5/4) loamy sand. Artifacts consist of three Woodland plain mediumsand tempered and one rhyolite interior flake.FEATURE 208 – CLAY EXTRACTION PIT/TRASH PITFeature 208 is a large oval pit measuring 6.7 by 5.5 feet and extending 2.6 feet into subsoil(Figures 41 and 42). In general the fill consisted of very dark grayish brown (2.5Y3/2) loamysand. The top center portion of the feature contained a lens of crushed brick or fired clay mixed inwith yellowish red clay (5YR4/6). After excavation, the top 1.7 feet was ringed with a brownishyellow (10YR6/8) sandy clay, while the lower portion was a light gray (N7/) clay (see Diagram 1for Gley in the Munsell Soil Color Chart). Based on its location in front of the chimney, as well asthe clay substrata found within, this pit appears to have been dug to extract clay for daubing thechimney.