HPC agenda 102799 - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

Q a tobacco . The site of the tobacco house has been bulldozed and smoothed to build a circa 1900 saw mill (post in ground) . No artifacts were observed in that spoil . The original main barn burned and was replaced in the 1950s by the Martin family. The ' knoll to the east of that barn was checked for archaeological evidence since the area appeared disturbed. It proved to contain animal burials (horses) . A rise to the northeast Iof the main house is lightly forested (after hurricane Fran) . Here a large, approximately 46xl9 ft ellipsoidal trash dump was observed (still St . Mary ' s Site 7 ; 31Or486 * * ) . This trash dump is rich in artifacts, containing many metal objects as well as glasswares and ceramics . For example we noted whiteware sherds and two large fragments of a Bristol and Albany slipped crock ("3 " in cobalt blue) . It appears as if the area was deliberately modified for a dump ( scooped out . Enlarged gully?) . This feature has great potential for offering information about the lifestyles of the residents of the Caine Roberts farmstead. Just beyond the trash dump is the springhead to a tributary to BuckwaterBuckquarter Creek. This springhead was nicely rocked, with a rectangular aperture for keeping food and/or beverages cool. When the house was surveyed in 1993 researchers noted that the structure seemed to face the `wrong" direction, that is, northwards or away from St . Mary ' s Road . The house faces an old roadbed that once connected to a quarry site on the property, then continued northwest until it joined New Sharon Church Road. Mr. Anderson recalls in the 1960s some area farmers occasionally used this road, which fell out of use sometime soon after. The road leading from St . Mary ' s Road northwestward past the Caine Roberts farm and extending to New Sharon Church Road is visible on the 1918 soil map of the project area (Vanatta, Brinkley, and Davidson 1921 ) . This old roadbed ( St . Mary ' s Site 6 ; 31 Or485 * * ) is about 10 ft in diameter, and portions of it and a gully parallel to it contain a mixture of modern and old trash. One amethyst bottle was noted (pre1914) with a mold seam that continued to the lip . It may have been made in a three-part mold . The quarry site ( St . Mary ' s Site 5 ; 31 Or484 * * ) is found at the end of this road remnant at its intersection with a new housing development road . The stone quarry . consists of large spoil mounds and pits which have been filled in partially with tree stumps , and it is at least 100 ft in diameter . The date of the quarry is still unknown, but its stones were used to make the piers for the Caine Roberts house in the 1870s i (Anderson , personal communication 1999) . St. Marys Site 8 (31Or487 Mr . Anderson also showed us an historic house site located on another piece of his property located to the northwest of the Caine Roberts farmstead. This site was reached by way of remnant logging roads in a heavily forested part of the region. This site is located in a grassy clearing about 6, 000 ft northwest of the Caine Roberts farm nucleus . It has two main components , an artificial knoll at least 2 1/2 ft high of stone rubble , brick, artifacts; and dirt measuring about 22 ft wide and a house remnant with stone piers and a stone chimney stack . The angle of sight was 330 degrees from the knoll to the stone stack, at a distance of 101 . 6 ft . The knoll contained an amethyst glass bottle (with a continuous mold seam) , aqua canning jar fragments, an ironstone plate/saucer rim fragment (undecorated) , an old shovel remnant, a barrel ring , and a cast iron object, maybe a stove part, that read "P 57 . " This was once the location of a log cabin measuring about 16 x 24 ft . A date on the mortar on the exterior of the chimney reads 36