Plantations Without Pillars: Archaeology, Wealth, and Material Life at Bush Hill Volume 2 Technical Description of Excavations, Features, and Artifacts

Author(s): Melanie A. Cabak; Mark D. Groover; Elizabeth M. Scott; Sally Brown; George L. Wingard; Dennis Hendrix; Shirley Hightower

Editor(s): Charlie Tope

Year: 2004

Summary

"The following document is Volume 2 of the report of investigations conducted at Bush Hill plantation (site 38AK660). A technical description of the excavation methods used at the site and the archaeological features encountered during fieldwork are discussed in this volume. The volume also contains a detailed description of the artifacts recovered from the site. The methods used to analyze archival information associated with the study area is also presented in this document. The technical field and artifact information summarized in Volume 2 forms the basis of the archaeological site interpretation that is presented in Volume 1. Bush Hill plantation is located near Upper Three Runs Creek in Aiken County, South Carolina on the Savannah River Site, a nuclear research facility operated by the U.S. Department of Energy. Data recovery excavations were conducted at the site between 1996 and 1999 in response to the development of the Three Rivers Regional Landfill and Technology Center. Occupied between circa 1807 and 1920, the site, containing the archaeological remains of a planter’s dwelling and houselot, was owned by three generations of the George Bush family. The residents of Bush Hill plantation raised livestock and produced numerous subsistence crops as well as cotton. To date, Bush Hill is the only antebellum plantation on the Savannah River Site, or in the surrounding middle Savannah River valley, that has been the subject of data recovery excavations. Consequently, the archaeology conducted at the site is significant because it provides important information regarding the material conditions experienced by a 19th-century planter household in the region."

Cite this Record

Plantations Without Pillars: Archaeology, Wealth, and Material Life at Bush Hill Volume 2 Technical Description of Excavations, Features, and Artifacts. Melanie A. Cabak, Mark D. Groover, Elizabeth M. Scott, Sally Brown, George L. Wingard, Dennis Hendrix, Shirley Hightower, Charlie Tope. Columbia, South Carolina: Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, SCIAA. 2004 ( tDAR id: 391324) ; doi:10.6067/XCV86111K8

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Keywords

Culture
Historic • Late Archaic • Mississippian • Woodland

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic • Fauna • Glass • Metal • Shell

Site Name
38AK660

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Artifact Scatter • Domestic Structures • Post Hole / Post Mold • Refuse Pit

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis

General
Alkaline Glazed Stoneware • Aqua Glass • Brick • Bristol Glazed Stoneware • Bullets • Bush Hill Cemetery • Bush Hill Plantation • Buttons • Cartridges • Coarse Earthenware • Coin-Silver Spoon • Creamware • Curved Glass • Cut Nails • Dark Olive Green Glass • Fishhooks • Flat Glass • Forks • Gun Flints • Gun Parts • Hand Painted • Historic • Ironstone • Knife • Lead Fishing Sinkers • Lead Shot • Milk Glass • Musket Balls • Nails • Natural-clay Slipped Stoneware • Pearlware • Pipe Stem Fragments • Plantation • Porcelain • Refined Earthenware • Salt Glazed Stoneware • Semi-coarse Earthenware • Shell Edge • Shotgun Shells • Solarized Glass • Spoons • Stoneware • Tableware Glass • Three-tined Fork • Transfer Printed • Two-tined Fork • Utensiles • Whiteware • Wire Nails • Yellowware Show More

Geographic Keywords
Aiken County

Temporal Keywords
Historic Period • Postcontact Period

Spatial Coverage

min long: -82.19; min lat: 33.279 ; max long: -81.319; max lat: 33.785 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, SCIAA; Jonathan Leader; South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina

Contributor(s): Mark D. Groover; Elizabeth Scott; Sally Brown; George L. Wingard; Dennis Ryan; Bruce E. Rippeteau; Jonathan Leader; Mark Brooks; Richard Brooks; David C. Crass; Christopher Lintz; Kenneth E. Sassaman; Linda Stine; Monica Beck; Christine Crabtree; Tammy Forehand; J. Christopher Gillam; Mary M. Inkrot; George Lewis; Patrick Lowe; Judd Marrs; Bruce Penner; Kristin Wilson; Kevin Eberhard; Adrienne DeBaise; Joey Smith; Jill Trefz; John Huffman; Larry Potter; Lois Potter; Dean Scott; Farrah Brown; Leisha Allen; Sam Smith; Charlie Tope; Shirley Hightower; Dennis Hendrix; R. Bruce McMillan; Terrance J. Martin

Field Director(s): Melanie A. Cabak

Sponsor(s): Savannah River Operations Office, United State Department of Energy

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