Archaeological Investigations at Yourhaney Plantation (38GE18)

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT YOURHANEY PLANTATION73FEATURE 55 – HISTORIC POSTFeature 55 is a squarish stain measuring 0.7 by 0.7 feet and extending 0.5 feet into subsoil. Fillconsisted of dark grayish brown (10YR3/2) loamy sand. Artifacts consisted of two residualprehistoric sherds, 129.3 grams of brick rubble, one hand wrought nail fragment, three cut nails,four cut nail fragments, four panel bottle fragments, and one fragment of plain white graniteware.The graniteware has a beginning date of 1842, indicating that this feature was created in the midto late 19 th century.FEATURE 56 – HISTORIC SMEARFeature 56 is an amorphous stain measuring 0.6 by 0.5 feet and extending 0.3 feet into subsoil.The fill consists of dark grayish brown (10YR2/2) loamy sand. This feature is part of a largerprehistoric stain that encompasses Feature 54 discussed above. Artifacts consist of two fine sanderoded decorated sherds, one fine sand check stamped sherd, one fine sand tempered fabricimpressed sherd, one medium sand tempered fabric impressed Mount Pleasant sherd, 15 residualsherds, one rhyolite thinning flake, one rhyolite flake fragment, one hand wrought nail, and onepiece of aqua bottle glass.FEATURE 58 – HISTORIC POSTFeature 58 is a circular post measuring 1.1 by 1.1 feet and extending 0.8 feet into subsoil. The fillconsists of very dark brown (10YR2/2) loamy sand. Artifacts consist of six Mount Pleasant cordmarked medium sand tempered sherd, one Deptford cord marked coarse sand tempered sherd,one square shanked nail, two white salt glazed stoneware sherds (1740 – 1775), and onefragment of blue decorated delft (1700-1800). The historic ceramics suggest that the feature wascreated in the second half of the 18 th century.FEATURE 59 – POSTFeature 59 is an oval post measuring 1.1 by 0.7 feet and extending 1.2 feet into subsoil. The fillconsists of very dark grayish brown (10YR3/2) loamy sand. No artifacts were recovered from thisfeature. An OCR date of 1763 was obtained from this feature.FEATURE 60 – POSTFeature 60 is a circular post measuring 1.3 feet in diameter and extending 0.2 feet into the subsoil.The fill consists of brown (10YR5/3) loamy sand. Artifacts consist of one Deptford Check Stampedsherd and two residual sherds. The absence of historic artifacts suggest that it may be prehistoricin origin.FEATURE 61 – HISTORIC POSTFeature 61 is a square post measuring 0.5 by 0.5 feet in size and extending 0.5 feet into thesubsoil. The fill consists of dark brown (10YR3/3) loamy sand. Artifacts consist of two ThomsCreek plain fine sand tempered sherds, one Wilmington/Hanover plain grog tempered sherd,three residual sherds, one metavolcanic flake fragment, one hand wrought nail, and onepharmaceutical bottle fragment. An OCR date of 1842 was obtained from this feature.