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Site Name Keywords
Rumsey/Polk Tenant/Prehistoric Site (7NC-F-112, CRS # N-14492) •
Bird-Houston (7NC-F-138) •
Noxon Tenancy (7NC-F-133) •
Cardon/Holton Site (CRS# N14508, 7NC-F-128)
Site Type Keywords
Archaeological Feature •
Artifact Scatter •
Post Hole / Post Mold •
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex •
Domestic Structures •
House •
Pit •
Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features •
Agricultural or Herding •
Midden
Other Keywords
Tenant Farm •
Soil Chemcial Analysis •
cart roads •
Refined Colonial Ceramics
Culture Keywords
Historic •
Euroamerican •
African American •
Archaic •
Woodland •
Late Archaic •
Early Woodland •
Middle Woodland •
Late Woodland
Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation •
Site Evaluation / Testing •
Historic Background Research •
Consultation •
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis •
Research Design / Data Recovery Plan •
Systematic Survey •
Bioarchaeological Research •
Geophysical Survey •
Archaeological Overview
Material Types
Ceramic •
Fauna •
Glass •
Macrobotanical •
Metal •
Chipped Stone •
Shell •
Building Materials •
Fire Cracked Rock •
Dating Sample
Temporal Keywords
Early Industrialization (1770-1830) •
Industrialization and Early Urbanization (1830-1880) •
WOODLAND II (CA AD 1000-1650) •
WOODLAND I (CA 3000 BC- AD 1000) •
Intensified Occupation (1730-1770) •
Intensified and Durable Occupation (1730-1770) •
Urbanization and Early Suburbanization (1880-1940) •
Frontier Settlement (1630-1730) •
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) •
Upper Coastal Plain •
USA (Country) •
Drainage Divide •
Chesapeake Headwater Drainage
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-30 of 30)
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- Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus A: Buttons (2012)
- Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus A: Feature 1 Well After Mechanical Excavation of Surrounding Subsoil (2012)
- Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus A: Pharmaceutical Bottle Fragments (2012)
- Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Bone Handled Utensil Recovered from Feature 15 (2012)
- Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Brass Button and Broach Pin (2012)
- Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Feature 1 Well After Mechanical Stripping of Plowzone (2012)
- Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Feature 15 Well After Mechanical Excavation of Surrounding Subsoil (2012)
- Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Feature 3 West Profile (2012)
- Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Redware Bowl In-Situ Feature 15 Well (2012)
- Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Unidentified Iron Object Recovered from Feature 3 (2012)
- Noxon Tenancy Site [7NC-F-133]: Caprine Faunal Specimen Recovered from Feature Contexts (2012)
- Noxon Tenancy Site [7NC-F-133]: Feature 1 North Profile After Bisection (2012)
- Noxon Tenancy Site [7NC-F-133]: Feature 2 Top Level 13 After Mechanical Removal of Surrounding Subsoil (2012)
- Noxon Tenancy Site [7NC-F-133]: Feature 34 Fully Excavated Showing Wooden Cribbing Remnants (2012)
- Noxon Tenancy Site [7NC-F-133]: Feature 4 East Profile After Bisection (2012)
- Noxon Tenancy Site [7NC-F-133]: Redware Porringer Fragment Recovered From Feature 39 (2012)
- Noxon Tenancy Site [7NC-F-133]: Scratch-blue White Salt-glazed Stoneware Teacaddy Fragment Recovered from Feature 1 (2012)
- Noxon Tenancy Site [7NC-F-133]: Site Overview at Completion of Data Recovery (2012)
- Noxon Tenancy Site [7NC-F-133]: Staffordshire Slipware Porringer Fragments Recovered from Feature 8 (2012)
- Artifacts Found in Feature 127 (2014)
- Creamware Teapot Found in Feature 5 (2014)
- Iron Saddle Frame Recovered from Feature 5 (2014)
- Personal Artifacts from Nineteenth-Century Contexts (2014)
- Presidential Pipe Bowl from Features 6 and 163 (2014)
- Representative Eighteenth Century Buttons (2014)
- Representative Teaware (2014)
- Selected Phase III Prehistoric Artifacts (2014)
- Sponge Decorated Whiteware from Nineteenth-Century Contexts (2014)
- Surveyors Dividers (2014)