Plantations Without Pillars: Archaeology, Wealth, and Material Life at Bush Hill Volume 3 Appendices

Author(s): Melanie A. Cabak

Year: 2004

Summary

"The following document is Volume 3 of the report of investigations conducted at Bush Hill plantation (site 38AK660). 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. This volume contains the artifact inventory as well as the data gathered from the population census, agricultural census and probate documents."

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Plantations Without Pillars: Archaeology, Wealth, and Material Life at Bush Hill Volume 3 Appendices. Melanie A. Cabak. Columbia, South Carolina: Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, SCIAA. 2004 ( tDAR id: 391335) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8VQ33XS

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Keywords

Culture
Historic • Late Archaic • Mississippian • Woodland

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

Site Name
38AK660

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Artifact Scatter • House • Midden • Post Hole / Post Mold

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Historic Background Research • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Research Design / Data Recovery Plan

General
Agriculture • Aiken County • Ammunition and Gun Parts • Artifact Inventory • Botanical Remains • Bottle and Jar Glass • Bush Hill Plantation • Census • Census Data • Coarse Earthenware • Creamware • Cut Nails • Earthenware • Electric Parts • Faunal Remains • Federal Agricultural Census Sample • Federal Population Census Sample • Flat Glass • Furniture Hardware • Hardware • Lead-Glazed Earthenware • Metal • Other Glass • Pearlware • Personal • Pipes • Plantation • Porcelain • Prehistoric Ceramic • Probate Inventory Sample • Semi-coarse Earthenware • Stable Gear • Stoneware • Tools and Utensiles • Utensiles • Whiteware • Wire Nails • Wrought Nails Show More

Geographic Keywords
Aiken County

Temporal Keywords
Historic Period • Postcontact Period

Spatial Coverage

min long: -82.297; min lat: 33.198 ; max long: -81.13; max lat: 33.872 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

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

Contributor(s): Melanie A. Cabak; Dennis Ryan; Bruce E. Rippeteau; Jonathan Leader; Mark Brooks; Richard Brooks; Tammy Forehand; Sally Brown; Farrah Brown; Christine Crabtree; Sam Smith; George Wingard; Shirley Hightower; Dennis Hendrix

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