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Phase Ii Archaeological Investigation of Site 44Vb0363 at Marshview Park Virginia Beach, Virginia PHASE II ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF SITE 44VB0363 AT MARSHVIEW PARK VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA September 2013 Prepared for: Prepared by: Land Studio pc Matthew R. Laird, Ph.D., RPA P.O. Box 10801 James River Institute for Norfolk, Virginia 23513 Archaeology, Inc. 223 McLaws Circle, Suite 1 Williamsburg, Virginia 23185 ABSTRACT In June 2013, the James River Institute for Archaeology, Inc. (JRIA) completed a Phase II archaeological investigation of Site 44VB0363, a suspected colonial era domestic site identified in the course of a 2011 survey of the 99-acre Marshview Park property conducted for the City of Virginia Beach Department of Parks & Recreation as part of the park master planning process. Virginia Beach Parks & Recreation and Land Studio pc invited JRIA to return to undertake a more intensive study of this resource with the goals of learning more about the site, providing interested members of the public an opportunity to directly assist with the archaeological project, and to include identifiable permanent marking and interpretation of the site in the long range plan for the park. The Phase II archaeological investigation consisted of the excavation of 17 three- foot square test units within the core site area in an effort to identify potential subsurface cultural features and collect a representative sample of artifacts for analysis. During the course of the project, JRIA archaeologists worked closely with a number of volunteers, including adults and children, as well as local educators, and offered public site tours. The results of the Phase II archaeological and documentary research at Site 44VB0363 at Marshview Park offered intriguing insights into who lived at this site and when. Test unit excavation yielded a significant assemblage of household artifacts and architectural materials, the analysis of which revealed that the site most likely was occupied during the last quarter of the eighteenth century and into the first years of the nineteenth century. Documentary research indicated that this occupation coincided with the ownership of prominent Princess Anne County planter and Revolutionary War veteran Thomas Reynolds Walker, his son Thomas Walker, and granddaughter Sarah Walker Braithwaite. Since none of the Walkers evidently lived at this location, the site most likely was occupied by one or more tenant farmer families, or perhaps even by some of the enslaved African Americans held by the Walker family. Given the available evidence, it appears most likely that the site included a small and simple frame dwelling with a brick hearth and possibly a brick chimney, the type of unexceptional dwelling which the vast majority of Princess Anne County residents, free or enslaved, would have called home during the decades following the American Revolution. The Phase II investigation at Site 44VB0363 has yielded some important information, but more remains to be learned. The site remains in excellent condition, with little disturbance since the site was abandoned in the early nineteenth century. More subsurface features, including possible building remains, trash pits, fence lines, etc., might be found in future investigations. The site appears to have the physical integrity and research potential to be considered eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion D. As such, JRIA recommends that the site should be preserved and protected to the greatest extent possible. As a significant cultural component of Marshview Park and the surrounding community, this site might serve as the focus of an ongoing educational program in which professional archaeologists work with students, teachers, avocational archaeologists, and other interested members of the community to continue the exploration of this comparatively rare site type. TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................................ i LIST OF FIGURES ......................................................................................................... iii I. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................... 1 II. RESEARCH DESIGN ................................................................................................. 5 Project Goals ............................................................................................................... 5 Testing Methodology .................................................................................................. 5 III. ARCHAEOLOGICAL TESTING ............................................................................ 8 IV. ANALYSIS ................................................................................................................ 12 Spatial Analysis ........................................................................................................ 12 Artifact Analysis ....................................................................................................... 16 Historical Analysis .................................................................................................... 22 V. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................... 26 VI. REFERENCES ......................................................................................................... 29 APPENDIX A: ARTIFACT CATALOG ..................................................................... 31 APPENDIX B: SITE INVENTORY FORM ................................................................ 61 ii LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1. Location of Site 44VB0363 on detail of U.S.G.S. 7.5’ Virginia Beach topographic quadrangle map, 1989. .........................................................................2 Figure 2. Location of Site 44VB0363 on a 2010 aerial photograph. .......................................3 Figure 3. Volunteers excavating test units and screening excavated soil. ...............................4 Figure 4. Volunteers washing artifacts in the field. .................................................................4 Figure 5. JRIA archaeologists conducting preliminary site work along the principal north- south grid line. .........................................................................................................6 Figure 6. Location of Phase II test units at Site 44VB0363. ....................................................9 Figure 7. East profile of Test Unit 103. .................................................................................10 Figure 8. North profile of Test Unit 106. ...............................................................................10 Figure 9. Feature in Test Unit 106, view to north. .................................................................11 Figure 10. Total artifact density by test units. ........................................................................13 Figure 11. Brick concentrations by test units. ........................................................................15 Figure 12. Assorted ceramic sherds. ......................................................................................19 Figure 13. English white salt-glazed stoneware sherd with dot, diaper and basket rim design ca. 1740-1775. ............................................................................................19 Figure 14. Dark green wine bottle glass (top) and imported English tobacco pipe stem (bottom)..................................................................................................................20 Figure 15. French gunflint. ....................................................................................................20 Figure 16. Rhyolite Palmer type projectile point (ca. 8000 to 7200 B.C.). ...........................21 Figure 17. Location of Thomas Reynolds Walker’s home site in relation to Site 44VB0363 (Anonymous 178-?). ............................................................................23 Figure 18. Ca. 1815 slave dwelling at Walnut Valley, Surry County. ...................................27 iii I. INTRODUCTION In 2011, the James River Institute for Archaeology, Inc. (JRIA) completed a Phase I survey of approximately 99 acres at Marshview Park on behalf of the City of Virginia Beach Department of Parks & Recreation as part of the park master planning process. The goal of the survey was to identify and evaluate the significance of all prehistoric or historic archaeological sites within the proposed park limits, and included the excavation of screened shovel test holes at 50-foot intervals across the entire property. In the southern portion of the project area near a tributary of Lake Rudee, JRIA archaeologists found a concentration of historic artifacts—including ceramics, bottle glass, nails, brick fragments, and oyster shell—which suggested that this location had been the site of a colonial period homestead occupied in the period ca. 1690-1750 (Figures 1-2). Because sites of this type are relatively rare in Virginia Beach, JRIA recommended that further archaeological testing could provide important information about the early history of what was then Princess Anne County (Fesler and Laird 2011). In the spring of 2013, Virginia Beach Parks & Recreation and Land Studio pc contracted with JRIA to conduct a more intensive study of this site with the goals of learning more about the site, providing interested members of the public the opportunity to directly assist with the archaeological project,
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