Bird-Houston Site

Site Name Keywords
Bird-Houston (7NC-F-138)

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • House • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Midden • Pit • Post Hole / Post Mold • Barrel Well • Brick-Lined Well

Other Keywords
Tenant Farm

Culture Keywords
Historic • African American • Euroamerican

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Site Evaluation / Testing • Systematic Survey • Historic Background Research • Geophysical Survey

Material Types
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Fauna • Glass • Building Materials • Macrobotanical • Metal • Shell

Temporal Keywords
Early Industrialization (1770-1830) • Industrialization and Early Urbanization (1830-1880) • Urbanization and Early Suburbanization (1880-1940)

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

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-15 of 15)

Bird Houston (7NC-F-138) Locus B Ceramic Minimum Number of Vessels (MNV) Catalog (2017)
DATASET Louis Berger.
Listing by Feature and Vessel numbers of specific ceramic specimen and their cross mends used to calculate a minimum number of vessels (MNV) for the Locus B occupation at the Bird-Houston site.
Bird-Houston (7NC-F-138) Locus B Glass Minimum Number of Vessels (MNV) Catalog (2017)
DATASET Louis Berger.
Catalog details the artifacts and cross mends from each feature that constitute the reconstructed glass vessels used to calculate the minimum number of glass vessels from features at Locus B of the Bird-Houston site (7NC-F-138)
Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138) Phase II and III Artifact Catalog (2017)
DATASET Louis Berger.
artifact catalog from Phase II and III excavations at the Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138), includes identified floral and faunal specimen
Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138), U.S. Route 301 Corridor
PROJECT John Bedell. FHWA.
The Louis Berger Group, Inc., conducted Phase II and III archaeological investigations at the Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138), located in St. Georges Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, in advance of the proposed U.S. Route 301 construction. The Bird-Houston Site is the remains of a small farm occupied between about 1775 and 1920. The site has two distinct parts about 200 feet apart; Locus B was occupied from about 1775 to 1825, and Locus A was occupied from about 1825 to 1920. Documentary...
Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus A: Buttons (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.
Laboratory photo of buttons recovered from various contexts in Locus A, the Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138)
Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus A: Feature 1 Well After Mechanical Excavation of Surrounding Subsoil (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.
Field photo of Locus A Feature 1, the well, after hand excavation of upper layers and mechanical excavation of surrounding subsoil. View to North
Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus A: Pharmaceutical Bottle Fragments (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.
Laboratory photo of 19th-century glass pharmaceutical bottle fragments recovered from various contexts in Locus A at the Bird-Houston site (7NC-F-138).
Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Bone Handled Utensil Recovered from Feature 15 (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.
Field photo of bone-handled iron utensil (Cat./Spec. No. 239.24) recovered from Stratum A Level 2 East Half, Feature 15, the well, in Locus B of the Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138).
Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Brass Button and Broach Pin (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.
Laboratory photo of brass button (Cat./Spec. No. 243.8) recovered from Locus B Feature 15 Stratum B Level 1 East Half and brass broach pin (Cat./Spec. No. 238.21) recovered from Locus B Feature 15 Stratum A Level 1 West Half.
Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Feature 1 Well After Mechanical Stripping of Plowzone (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.
Field photo of identification and cleaning of Locus B Feature 1, the well, after mechanical removal of plowzone.
Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Feature 15 Well After Mechanical Excavation of Surrounding Subsoil (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.
Field photo of Locus B Feature 15, resuming hand excavation after mechanical removal of surrounding subsoil, view to west.
Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Feature 3 West Profile (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.
Field photo of Locus B Feature 3 west profile after excavation of east half. Unidentified iron artifact in-situ at base of excavation.
Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Redware Bowl In-Situ Feature 15 Well (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.
Field photo of redware bowl in-situ within Locus B well, Feature 15 Stratum A, Level 2, west half (Cat./Spec. No. 240.11), view to north.
Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Unidentified Iron Object Recovered from Feature 3 (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.
Field photo of unidentified iron object recovered from Locus B Feature 3, Stratum A, Level 1 (Cat./Spec. No. 220.4) after excavation.
Phase II and III Archaeological Investigations The Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138), U.S. Route 301 Corridor, New Castle County, Delaware, DelDOT Parent Agreement 1538, Task 10 (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John Bedell. Wesley Willoughby. Jason Shellenhammer.
The Louis Berger Group, Inc., conducted Phase II and III archaeological investigations at the Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138), located in St. Georges Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, in advance of the proposed U.S. Route 301 construction. The Bird-Houston Site is the remains of a small farm occupied between about 1775 and 1920. The site has two distinct parts about 200 feet apart; Locus B was occupied from about 1775 to 1825, and Locus A was occupied from about 1825 to 1920. Documentary...