Archaeological Investigations at Yourhaney Plantation (38GE18)

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT YOURHANEY PLANTATION69FEATURE 36 – HISTORIC POSTFeature 36 is an oval shaped post measuring 2.0 by 1.1 feet in size and extending 1.2 feet intothe subsoil. The fill consists of dark grayish brown (2.5Y4/2) loamy sand. Artifacts consistedprimarily of prehistoric sherds including one Thoms Creek punctated medium sand tempered sherd,12 Woodland plain fine sand tempered sherds, two Wilmington/Hanover plain sand/grogtempered sherds, one plain coarse sand tempered sherd, and five residual sherds. A rhyoliteinterior flake was also recovered. Historic artifacts consisted of three wrought nails. An OCR dateof 1741 was obtained from this feature.FEATURE 37 – HISTORIC POSTFeature 37 is a circular post measuring 1.1 feet in diameter and extending 0.7 feet into the subsoil.The fill consists of dark grayish brown (2.5Y4/2) loamy sand. Artifacts consist of eight ThomsCreek plain fine sand tempered sherds, one Wilmington/Hanover eroded decorated mediumsand/grog tempered sherd, one rhyolite flake, and one hand wrought nail.FEATURE 38 –POSTFeature 38 is a square post measuring 1.4 by 1.5 feet and extending 0.8 feet into the subsoil. Thefill consists of brown (10YR4/3) loamy sand. No artifacts were recovered from this feature and itstemporal affiliation is unknown. However, its square configuration suggests it is possibly historic.FEATURE 39 – HISTORIC POSTFeature 39 is a square post measuring 1.0 by 1.0 feet and extending 0.7 feet into the subsoil. Thefill consists of very dark grayish brown (2.5Y3/2) loamy sand. Artifacts consist of two ThomsCreek plain fine sand tempered sherds, one decorated eroded fine sand tempered sherd, threerhyolite interior flakes, one rhyolite unidentified flake, and one hand wrought nail.FEATURE 40 – HISTORIC POSTFeature 40 is almost identical to Feature 39 and is a square post measuring 1.0 by 1.0 feet andextending 0.8 feet into the subsoil. The fill consists of dark grayish brown (2.5Y4/2) loamy sand.Artifacts consisted of four plain fine sand tempered sherds, two Hanover fabric impressed mediumsand and grog tempered sherds, two residual sherds, one unidentified rhyolite flake, and one ironspike.FEATURE 42 – PREHISTORIC POT BUSTFeature 42 is a roughly circular stain measuring 2.2 by 2.8 feet and extending 0.8 feet into thesubsoil. The fill consists of light olive brown (2.5Y5/4) loamy sand. Artifacts included two plainfine sand tempered, two plain coarse sand tempered sherds, and one Reed Punctate fine sandtempered sherd. They are likely Late Archaic to Early Woodland Thoms Creek wares. But the vastmajority of ceramics (n=13) were grog tempered fabric impressed sherds. These sherds areprobably Middle to Late Woodland Hanover/Wilmington pottery. Unfortunately, there is notenough of the vessel to determine form.