Archaeological Investigations and Analyses, 48LA71DD, Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Laramie County, Wyoming: Final Report

Part of the F.E. Warren AFB Project Metadata project

Author(s): Dori M. Penny; Paul H. Sanders; Thomas K. Larson; Larson-Tibesar Associates

Year: 1986

Summary

During November and December of 1984, surface collections and test excavations were conducted at an historic cultural material deposit located along a portion of a sewer line corridor within the boundaries of Francis E. Warren Air Force Base (Formerly Fort D. A. Russell and Fort F. E. Warren). This area, referred to as 48LA71DD, is outside the boundaries of the F. E. Warren National Historic District. Large amounts of historical material including bottles, bottle glass, non-bottle glass, ceramics, leather, metal, wood, brick, other building materials, and faunal remains were recovered. The artifactual materials and excavation unit profiles indicate that 48LA71DD functioned as a trash dump/landfill during a period extending from approximately World War I to World War II (ca. 1918-1940). As a result of field investigations and the accompanying analyses, information was obtained pertaining to consumption patterns and refuse disposal on a military base. Due to the lack of significant time depth, the apparent mixing of the deposits, and the limited significant research potential of the materials examined, the investigated portions of 48LA71DD are not believed to be eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.

Cite this Record

Archaeological Investigations and Analyses, 48LA71DD, Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Laramie County, Wyoming: Final Report. Dori M. Penny, Paul H. Sanders, Thomas K. Larson, Larson-Tibesar Associates. 1986 ( tDAR id: 470772) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8470772

Keywords

Culture
Historic

Material
.22 Caliber Cartridge • 12 gauge shotgun shell • 16 Tine Rake • 30-06 Government Casings • 30-40 Cartridge • A.S. Hinds and Company Bottle • Angle Iron • Angle Screw • apothecary jar • Aquamarine Glass • Ash • Bailey-Walker Company mug • Barbed Wire • Barton's Dyanshine Bottle • Batteries • Battery Pack • Bayonet Medal • Beaman Aquamarine Bottle • Belt buckle • Bolt • Bone Button • bone fragments • Bottle Base • Bottle Base marked Blue Ribbon • Bottle Glass • Bottles • Bottle Stoppers • Brass Watch • Brick • Bromo-Seltzer Bottle • Bucket • Building Materials • Bunson Burner Base • Burned Bone • burned metal objects • Button • Cabinet Part • Cable • Campana's Italian Balm • Cast Iron Sewer/Water Pipe End • cathedral type ketchup bottle • Ceramic • Ceramic Bowl Fragment • ceramic electrode • Ceramic Horse • Ceramic Insulator • Ceramic Plate Fragment • Ceramic Plumbing • chemical bottle • Chert Spall • Chesebrough Manufacturing Company • Chest Handle • Cheyenne Creamery Company bottle Fragments • cinders • clayey loam • Clear Glass • Clear Glass Bottle Bottom • Clear Glass Bottle Necks/Tops • Clinker • Clip • Cloth • Coal • Coat Hanger • Cobalt Blue Bottle Glass • Coca Cola Bottle • coca cola soda water • Comb • Copper Wire • Cork Bottle Cap Liner • cosmetic bottle • Dark Olive-Colored Glass • Decorated Bottle Fragments • Dorothy Gray cosmetics bottle • Drinking Glass • Electrical socket adapter • Eyelet • Faucet • Fauna • Faunal Remains • flat tile • Fletcher's Castoria Container • glasgow Pottery bowl • Glass • glass stopper • Glass Vial • glazed sewer pipe • glazed water pipe • Graphite Pencil Lead • Grate • Gray Sand • Green Glass • Grommets • H.J. Heinz Bottle • hat brim • Hide • Higgins Glue Well • Higgins Ink Well • highly oxidized coal and ash • Hinge Fragment • Horseshoe • Horse Tack • H-Shaped Bar • Ingram Shaving Cream Jar • Jergen's Lotion Bottle • Leather • Leather Heel • Light Green Glass • Listerine Bottle • Lumber • Lysol Bottle • Medicine bottle • Metal • Metal Bar • Metal Frame for Top of Chest • Metal Key • Metal objects • Mica • Milk Bottle • Milk Glass • Milk of Magnesia Bottle • Mineral • Muleshoe • Nail • Oil Filter • ointment jar • Onandago Pottery Company plate • Orange Metal Sub-Surface Layer • Paintbrush Fragment • Paint Can Bottom • Paint Can Lid Fragment • Pencil Fragment • pepper sauce bottle • Perfume Bottles • Pharmaceutical Bottle • pickle jar • Picture Hanger Support • Pink Serving Dish • Plate Glass • Polished Bone • Pond's Cold Cream bottle • preserve jar • Quartermaster Corps, white utilitarian ware • radio tube • Resinol glass jar • Ring • ring neck shoe polish bottle • Rivet (Female) • Rivet (Male) • Rubber • sandy clay • Screen (Window) • Screw In Electrical Outlet • Seam Can Fragment • semi-vitreous china • Seven-up Bottle • Sheet Metal • Shell Button • Shenango China Company mug • Shoe • silver polish bottle • Slate • Sodiphene Bottle • Spring • Springs • Squibb pharmaceutical bottle • Staples • Stopper • Stove Top with Two, 9" Griddle Openings • Strapping • Table Legs • tall polish bottle • Test tubes • Textile • three and one-half ounce shoe polish bottles • Tin Can • Toothbrush • Toothpick • United States Army Medical Department Tableware • U-Shaped Metal with Hook • Washers • Watch Case Fragment • water glass • Whiskey Bottle • Wildroot Hair Tonic Bottle • Wire • Wood • wood and metal - gate wagon part • Wood Box Corner Protector • Wood Shaft • wood stake fragment Show More

Site Name
48LA248 • 48-LA-248 • 48LA273 • 48-LA-273 • 48LA278 • 48-LA-278 • 48LA483 • 48-LA-483 • 48LA484 • 48-LA-484 • 48LA71 • 48-LA-71 • 48LA71DD • 48-LA-71DD

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Cheyenne to Cheyenne Pass Road • Cheyenne to Wendover Road • Historic Trash Dump Site • Midden • Post Hospital Trash Dump Site • QuarterMaster Replacement Center • Trash Midden

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Geophysical Survey • Heritage Management • Historic Background Research • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Site Evaluation / Testing

General
Fort D. A. Russell National Register District • National Park Service • Organized Trash Removal System • Redeposited Material • United States Air Force • Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office

Geographic Keywords
Cheyenne, WY • F.E. Warren Air Force Base • Wyoming (State / Territory)

Temporal Keywords
Early 20th Century • Historical • Post-1871 • Post-1891 • Post-1903 • Post-1912 • Pre-Prohibition • World War I to World War II

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1920 to 1930 (Bottle Base marked Blue Ribbon, manufactured by Standard Glass Company)

Calendar Date: 1928 to 1928 (Homer Laughlin Mug)

Calendar Date: 1920 to 1963 (Dorothy Gray Cosmetics bottle, Carr-Lowrey Company manufacturing)

Calendar Date: 1928 to 1934 (Seven-Up Bottle)

Calendar Date: 1929 to 1954 (Campana's Italian Balm Bottle, Owens-Illinois Glass Company manufacturing)

Calendar Date: 1920 to 1931 (Chesebrough Manufacturing Company Bottle)

Calendar Date: 1917 to 1917 (30-06 Government catridge casing with only "17" visible on the headstamp)

Calendar Date: 1935 to 1938 (Lysol Bottle, Whitall and Tatum manufacturing)

Calendar Date: 1918 to 1942 (Date Range of Consumption Patterns at Site)

Calendar Date: 1929 to 1954 (Listerine Bottle, Owens-Illinois Company manufacturing)

Calendar Date: 1929 to 1954 (H.J. Heinz Bottle, Owens-Illinois Company manufacturing)

Calendar Date: 1917 to 1917 (30-06 Government cartridge casing with "R A 17" headstamp)

Calendar Date: 1912 to 1943 (12 Gauge Shotgun Shell with "REM-UMC" headstamp)

Calendar Date: 1912 to 1937 (38-40 Winchester Cartridge with "REM-UMC" headstamp)

Calendar Date: 1911 to 1960 (Soda Bottles, Beaman Bottles)

Calendar Date: 1925 to 1925 (Squibb branded pharmaceutical Bottle)

Calendar Date: 1926 to 1926 (30-06 Government cartridge casing with "F A 26" headstamp)

Calendar Date: 1911 to 1929 (H.J. Heinz Bottle, Owens' Bottle Company manufacturing)

Calendar Date: 1911 to 1916 (Tall Polish Bottle, Maryland Glass Company manufacturing)

Calendar Date: 1914 to 1914 (30-06 Government cartridge casing with "F A 11 14" headstamp)

Calendar Date: 1916 to 1929 (Wildroot Hair Tonic Bottle, Illinois Glass Company)

Calendar Date: 1926 to 1926 (Coca-Cola Light-Green Bottle)

Calendar Date: 1915 to 1929 (Paxton and Gallagher Jar, Turner Brother's Company manufacturing)

Calendar Date: 1920 to 1963 (Jergen's Lotion Bottle, Carr-Lowrey Glass Company Manufacturing)

Calendar Date: 1914 to 1951 (Milk Bottle, manufactured by Sterling Glass Company)

Calendar Date: 1916 to 1938 (Semi-Vitrified China, Thompson Pottery Company manufacturing)

Calendar Date: 1891 to 1910 (Semi-Vitrified China, Johnson Brothers manufacturing)

Calendar Date: 1935 to 1938 (A.S. Hinds and Company bottle, Whitall and Tatum manufacturing)

Calendar Date: 1916 to 1929 (Possible date for Cheyenne Creamery Company Bottle)

Calendar Date: 1912 to 1945 (Bronze General Service Buttons)

Calendar Date: 1863 to 1912 (Quartermaster Department Issue Ceramic Vessel)

Calendar Date: 1918 to 1918 (30-06 Government cartridge casing with "D-18" headstamp)

Calendar Date: 1907 to 1916 (Bromo-Seltzer Bottle, Maryland Glass Company)

Calendar Date: 1940 to 1941 (construction of Quartermaster Replacement Center)

Calendar Date: 1920 to 1964 (Hazel-Atlas Glass Company bottles)

Calendar Date: 1916 to 1929 (Illinois Glass Company)

Calendar Date: 1931 to 1931 (Incinerator Constructed)

Calendar Date: 1918 to 1940 (trash dump/landfill)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -104.898; min lat: 41.129 ; max long: -104.83; max lat: 41.211 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): F.E. Warren Air Force Base CRM Manager

Record Identifiers

Sewer Line No.(s): Line D

Performing Organization Rept. No.(s): L/T 40-84

ARPA Permit No.(s): 85-WY-008

Contract No.(s): CX-1200-5-A009

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