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49 <br /> look to be intact, at least the deposits in the <br /> immediate vicinity of those structures. That is not to <br /> say that the power line may not have obliterated things <br /> that were there. But the foundation remains of the <br /> structures themselves seem to be in tact. <br /> T. Dickinson asked why is a ruin such as this more <br /> interesting to the archeologist than an existing <br /> structure with the same yard around it? An existing <br /> structure of which we have upwards of 600 sites in <br /> Orange County that we are now including on the <br /> inventory, many of which are small farmsteads, some log <br /> buildings, some frame, have all been built in the last <br /> 180 years or so; why does the archeologist focus <br /> attention on a ruin more than the archeology to be <br /> gained from an existing site? <br /> Ward replied that they don't. In looking at the study <br /> that was done for Orange County, the Davis Farm site <br /> was excavated along with another site that still has a <br /> standing structure. If there are buried intact <br /> remains, dating to the time period of buildings <br /> original construction and use, regardless of whether <br /> they are standing or not, it still has archeological <br /> potential. <br /> Allison asked Ward what he expects to find at the <br /> Alexander Hogan site that won't be found at other <br /> antebellum sites in the County? <br /> Ward replied that it is not known yet what it holds <br /> relative to any other site in the County since they <br /> have not excavated other sites in the County. What is <br /> known, is that it has the potential for contributing <br /> important information that may be used in a comparing <br /> standpoint to begin to develop patterns that could be <br /> used then, to evaluate other sites in the County. <br /> Anderson asked what kind of remains Ward was able to <br /> determine from his testing? <br /> Ward replied that no artifacts were retrieved. <br /> Deposits resulting from the destruction and rotted down <br /> buildings, meaning that the artifacts are buried within <br /> that matrix and Ward expects to find kitchen artifacts, <br /> farm implements, etc. represented within that matrix <br /> It should be relatively sealed to the early part of the <br /> plantation's existence. Ward has seen some surface <br /> artifacts that date to the middle/late 19th century; <br /> ceramics, glass, etc. <br /> 8 <br />