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This page includes CRM reports and data sets from projects conducted as a result of Delaware Department of Transportation projects. This archaeological work was conducted to ensure compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. Within this page you will be able to find various phase I, phase II, and phase III archaeological reports.

Additional DelDOT reports can be found at: https://deldot.gov/environmental/archaeology/report-search/index.shtml

DelDOT has edited all cultural documents to protect culturally sensitive material. For more information on this, please see our disclaimer in our cultural resources page, found here: https://deldot.gov/environmental/archaeology/index.shtml?dc=disclaimer

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

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Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138), U.S. Route 301 Corridor Noxon Tenancy Site (7NC-F-133), U.S. Route 301 Corridor Phase III Archaeological Data Recovery, Cardon/Holton Site [7NC-F-128], St. Georges Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware Rumsey/Polk Tenant/Prehistoric Site (7NC-F-112, CRS # N-14492), U.S. Route 301, Levels Road Mitigation Site
  • Artifacts Found in Feature 127 (2014)
    IMAGE RGA Inc. . Allison Gall.

    Top Row, Far Left: Pipe Stem (PCN 1034). Second Row, From Left to Right: Pipe Stem (PCN 1034); Pipe Stem (PCN 1035). Far Right, Left to Right: Wrought Nail (PNC 1035); Bone (PCN 1035). Bottom Row, Left to Right: Pipe Bowl (PCN 1035); Pipe Bowl (PCN 1035); Button (PCN 1035); Pewter Spoon Fragment (PCN 1034); Pewter Spoon Fragment (PCN 1034); Glass Bead (PCN 1034).

  • Creamware Teapot Found in Feature 5 (2014)
    IMAGE RGA Inc. . Allison Gall.

    Left to Right: Teapot (PCN 774, 775, 966, 967, 968, 972, 973; 250c); Lid (PCN 775; 250c).

  • Iron Saddle Frame Recovered from Feature 5 (2014)
    IMAGE RGA Inc. . Allison Gall.

    Iron Saddle Frame Recovered from Feature 5

  • Personal Artifacts from Nineteenth-Century Contexts (2014)
    IMAGE RGA Inc. . Allison Gall.

    Left to Right: Glass Dial Face (PCN 919); Glass Bead (PCN 780); Jewelry Setting (PCN 958); Decorative Metal (PCN 878); Watch Gear (PCN 916); Bead (PCN 956).

  • Presidential Pipe Bowl from Features 6 and 163 (2014)
    IMAGE RGA Inc. . Allison Gall.

    1848 Lewis Cass Presidential Pipe Bowl from Features 6 and 163. (PCN 782 and 1097).

  • Representative Eighteenth Century Buttons (2014)
    IMAGE RGA Inc. . Allison Gall.

    Left to Right: Brass Button (PCN 997); Brass Button (PCN 970); Pewter USA Button (PCN 960); White Metal Button (PCN 1035); Decorative Button (PCN 1083).

  • Representative Teaware (2014)
    IMAGE RGA Inc. . Allison Gall.

    Top Row, Left to Right: Wheildonware (PCN 1089; 4c); White Salt Glazed Stoneware (PCN 1112; 27c); Earthenware Teapot (PCN 1087; 114c). Bottom Row, Left to Right: China Glaze Saucer (PCN 970; 1); Porcelain (PCN 1087); Porcelain (PCN 1086); Porcelain Saucer (PCN 1086; 23c).

  • Selected Phase III Prehistoric Artifacts (2014)
    IMAGE RGA Inc. . Allison Gall.

    Top Row, Left to Right: Prehistoric Ceramic (PCN* 1094); Chert Biface (PCN 964); Jasper Biface, Amos-like corner notched (PCN 1155); Chert Biface, LeCroy-like, bifurcated base (PCN 1156); Chert Biface tip (PCN 1158). Bottom Row, Left to Right: Quartz Scraper (PCN 962); Quartz Biface, Bare Island-like (PCN 953); Chert Biface, Poplar Island-like (PCN 957); Quartz Biface (PCN 962). *Provenience Control Number

  • Sponge Decorated Whiteware from Nineteenth-Century Contexts (2014)
    IMAGE RGA Inc. . Allison Gall.

    Top Row: Plate fragment (PCN 975; 73c). Bottom Row, Left to Right: Saucer (PCN 1094; 70c); Saucer (PCN 782; 71c); Cup (PCN 878; 61c); Cup (PCN 976; 67c).

  • Surveyors Dividers (2014)
    IMAGE RGA Inc. . Allison Gall.

    Surveyors Dividers (PCN 961).