Cardon/Holton Site

Part of: Route 301

Site Name Keywords
Cardon/Holton Site (CRS# N14508, 7NC-F-128)

Site Type Keywords
Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Agricultural or Herding • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Fence • Midden • Trash Midden • Refuse Pit • Storage Pit • Post Hole / Post Mold

Other Keywords
Tenant Farm

Culture Keywords
Archaic • Late Archaic • Woodland • Early Woodland • Middle Woodland • Late Woodland • Historic

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Data Recovery / Excavation • Reconnaissance / Survey • Site Evaluation / Testing • Historic Background Research

Material Types
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Glass • Building Materials • Macrobotanical • Metal • Pollen

Temporal Keywords
Frontier Settlement (1630-1730) • Intensified and Durable Occupation (1730-1770) • Late Archaic through Woodland II (ca 2,000 BC - 1650 AD)

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • Delaware (State / Territory) • New Castle County (County) • North America (Continent) • Drainage Divide

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  • Phase III Archaeological Data Recovery, Cardon/Holton Site [7NC-F-128], St. Georges Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware
    PROJECT Ian Burrow. William B. Liebeknecht. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).

    The Cardon/Holton Site [7NC-F-128] is a Euro-American farmstead occupied during the second quarter of the 18th century. It lies in St. Georges Hundred in New Castle County, Delaware, in a location east of the Choptank Road: itself one of the earliest north-south overland routes in this part of Delaware. This site itself was placed immediately adjacent to a now-vanished secondary cart road that branched off the Choptank Road a short distance to the south, and close to the still-extant wooded...