Today’s selection of artifacts of the day come from the Eutaw Manor excavation last spring. By the way, it’s only 49 days until we return to Eutaw Manor for the Spring 2016 Field Season. The first artifact (top) is a small piece of turned window lead, also known as lead-came. Such items would have been… Continue reading Artifacts of the Day: Window Lead and Sash Weight
Today’s artifacts of the day come from the Eutaw Manor excavation from the Spring of 2015. While testing in the west yard of the 1762 manor house, volunteers recovered several pieces of ceramic that date to the earliest European occupation of the park. The two artifacts in the left of the picture are fragments from… Continue reading Artifacts of the Day: North Devon and Red Border Ware
With the invaluable help from our new intern, we started photographing some of the artifacts we recovered from Eutaw Manor back in the spring of 2015. This is the first of many posts where we will share some of the more exciting artifacts that we recovered from Eutaw Manor, and in time, from the other… Continue reading Artifact of the Day: February 21, 2016
Many long time residents of Lauraville and elsewhere in northeast Baltimore know about Hall Spring in Herring Run Park, and perhaps you’ve heard about the hotel that once stood across the road from the historic springhead. When we started the Herring Run Archaeology Project, many of our neighbors and volunteers shared stories about drinking the water… Continue reading Hall Springs Hotel
As those of you who volunteered with us know, we had a fantastic ten days of fieldwork back in May 0f 2015 and made some astonishing discoveries – including the entire foundation of Eutaw Manor, a stone manor house built in 1760 that burned down in a catastrophic fire in October of 1865. Now we’ve… Continue reading Results of the 2015 Field Season
The Herring Run Archaeology Project 