Archaeological Investigations at Yourhaney Plantation (38GE18)

60FEATURE 17 – HISTORIC POSTFeature 17 is an oval post measuring 1.0 by 0.8 feet and extending 0.5 feet into subsoil. The fillconsisted of olive brown (2.5Y4/4) loamy sand. No artifacts were recovered from this feature,however the post is believed to be historic based on its relationship with other posts believed to behistoric.FEATURE 19 – HISTORIC POSTFeature 19 is an oval post measuring 1.6 by 1.8 feet and extending 1.5 feet into subsoil. The fillconsisted of dark grayish brown (2.5Y4/2) loamy sand. No artifacts were recovered from thisfeature, however the post is believed to be historic based on its relationship with other postsbelieved to be historic.FEATURE 20 – HISTORIC POSTFeature 20 is a square post measuring 0.6 by 0.6 feet and extending 0.5 feet into subsoil. The fillconsisted of olive brown (2.5Y4/4) loamy sand. No artifacts were recovered from this feature,however the post is believed to be historic based on its relationship with other posts believed to behistoric.FEATURE DESCRIPTIONS: AREA BFeatures identified in Area B are depicted in Figure 23. Five individual buildings and one yardactivity area were identified, but will be discussed in a later section.FEATURE 24 ROOT/STORAGE PITFeature 24 is located along the northern edge of the stripped area. There is a posited structure inthis area, but this feature is believed to pre-date the building. The feature is 11 feet long and fivefeet wide. Interestingly, it contains straight sides and a flat bottom (Figures 24 and 25). Soilsconsisted of very dark brown loamy sand (10YR2/2) extending to 0.4 feet into subsoil. There werea number of later historic intrusive posts and a few prehistoric posts only identified upon excavationof Feature 24. Artifacts dated to the early to mid 18 th century, producing a mean ceramic date of1756. An OCR sample retrieved from this feature provided a date of 1738. A total of 81 historicartifacts were recovered from this feature. Architectural artifacts consisted of 26 hand wroughtnails. Historic ceramics consisted of four pieces of colonoware (Lesesne variety), one fragment ofan unidentified/burnt line decorated ware, five pieces of blue decorated delft (1700-1800), onepiece of white delft (1700-1800), two pieces of Whieldon ware (1740-1770), one fragment ofNottingham stoneware (1700-1810), one Staffordshire slipware (1670-1795), one piece ofunidentified slipware, three pieces of clear glazed redware, four pieces of creamware (1762-1820), four pieces of blue Chinese porcelain (1660-1800), and six fragments of white salt glazedstoneware (1740-1775). Kitchen glass consisted of three pieces of burnt glass, four olive greenglass, four aqua glass, one clear glass. In addition to these artifacts, five ball clay pipe bowlfragments, four 5/64 inch bore ball clay pipe stems, and one piece of slag were recovered.