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Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 10, No. 4 Massachusetts Archaeological Society Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Journals and Campus Publications Society 7-1949 Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 10, No. 4 Massachusetts Archaeological Society Follow this and additional works at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/bmas Part of the Archaeological Anthropology Commons Copyright © 1949 Massachusetts Archaeological Society This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. BULLETIN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY VOL.X NO.4 JULY, 1949 CONTENTS The Herrecater Swamp Site, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts . Ripley P. Bullen and Edward Brooks ••••• 81 Indian Place Names in New England Myron o. Sleeper •••••••••••••• 89 Cache Corner at Satucket Raymond J. Seamans •• • • •• • ••••• • 94 w. Elmer Ekblaw ••••••••••••••• 96 PUBLISHED BY THE MASSACHUSETTS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Douglas S. Byers, Editor, Box 71, Andover, Mass. William S. Fowler, Secretary, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, Mass. Winthrop F. Barden, Treasurer, 18 North Main Street, Attleboro, Mass. JHE CLEMENT C. MAXWRL LIBRARY 51ATE COLLEGE BRIDGEWATER. MASSACHUSm! This journal and its contents may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. ©2010 Massachusetts Archaeological Society. THE HERRECATER SWAMP SITE, NANTUCKET ISLAND. MASSACHUSETTS Ripley P. Bullen and Edward Brooks The HerrecaterSwamp site is located in topsoil. This shell. while present rrom the the northeastern portion or Nantucket Island surrace down to the bottom or the loam. in an area known as Squam (Fig. 14). This tended to increase in quantity towards the site includes two areas or occupation. That bottom or this zone. Rarely could this con­ they may be identiried separately. one will centration be derined as a layer or shell. be rererred to as the Indian site. the other Small pockets or broken shell mixed with as the Colonial site. charcoal were occasionally round in the sub- N J HERRECATER SWAMP ~~"r Fig. 14. Nantucket Island showing location or Herrecater Swamp Site. The Indian Site soil. This site is on gently sloping ground In certain areas. the dark dirt mixed with a southern exposure. It overlooks what with shell was separated rrom the yellow probably was once a pond. but now contains a subsoil by another zone. In one case. this heavy growth or swamp oak. azalea. blueberry intermediate ~one consisted or a layer or bushes. and tupelo. white sand, 5 cm. thick. In another area this was a brown zone. apparently composed In 1938. an area measuring 3 x 7 meters or a mixture or loam and yellow subsoil. In was excavated. Several post holes. ~ rew. two squares to the east or the main excavated stone points. and a single-barbed bone point area. where no shell was present, the dark (Fig. 18. G) were round. In the raIl or topsoil, 15 cm. thick, was separated rrom 193e. a series or test holes were made in the the subsoil by a black greasy layer, 5 cm. western end or the bed or the old pond. An thick. Chips and stone artiracts were rair­ area paved with stones was uncovered. As­ ly abundant in this greasy zone. While this sociated with these rocks were several pieces greasy deposit· may have represented a house or worked stone and large rragments or a rloor, post holes were not round along the green glass bottle. These rragments were one excavated edge. heavily patinated. A rlow or water which was encountered here suggests that a spring is Horizontal distribution or 14 pits and nearby. 26 post holes is given in the excavation plan (Fig. 15). pits varied rrom a maximum In L939. 1940. and 1941. excavations or 120 x 120 em. in plan with a vertical were continued under the auspices or the depth or 55 cm., to 12 x 26 cm. in area and Massachusetts Archaeological society. A plan 8 cm. in vertical extent. Usually the top (Fig. 15) shows the area worked during those or each pit approximated a circle in shape. years. No runction can be assigned to these rea­ tures although their use as storage recep­ The soil at the site consisted of black­ tacles may be suggested. They usually con­ ish-brown sandy loam. 15-25 cm. thick. which tained midden refuse, black or brown dirt, rested upon yellow sandy subsoil. Tests charcoal. shell, animal bones, chips, and which were made in two ~laces revealed occasionally pottery sherds. bone awls, and whitish sand and pebbles underlying the yel­ projectile points. low sUbsoil. as indicated on the west prorile (Fig. 16) •. Over most or the excavated area. A prorile or Pit B, located between crushed shell was round mixed with the dark stakes AB9/1OW and AB9/11W has been plotted 81 82 MASSACHUSETTS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: BULLETIN (Fig. 17). There was some stratirication or may be a natural inclusion in the clay. the rill or this pit. It appears to have They may indicate a dirrerent source or clay been reused arter part or the original wall than that used ror other vessels, a lack or collapsed. Some orange-colored sand at the care in preparation or clay, or the inten- edges or the lower black zone appears to be tional addition or sand. the result or heat. Contents or this pit in­ cluded shells or quahog, oyster, and clam, Shell-tempered pottery is medium thick, about 300 chips, and, in the lower brown zone, measuring 5-8 rnm., and brown to gray-brown sherds or pottery. in color. Shells or the scallop seem to have been prererred ror tempering. Rim Post holes varied rrom 4 to 9 em. in sherds rrom two vessels are illustrated. diameter and rrom 10 to 30 em. in length. The rirst has a simple rounded rim which has Mest were represented merely by brown dirt been pinched or rolled outward slightl~ so extending downward rrom the junction or the that it suggests an everted lip (Fig. 18, A). loam and yellow subsoil. In a rew cases, 'No evidence or a constricted neck is to be post holes were rilled with black dirt mixed round in these sherds. This vessel is de­ with rragments or shell. corated by wide, shallow lines incised over a cord-rnalleated surrace. The design con­ Pottery rrom this site may be divided sists or concentric lineal-"V"s above two into three groups by tempering material; lines parallel to the rim. The second vessaL shell-tempered, coarse mineral-tempered, and has a simple, rounded, everted rim and a that tempered with shell and small rounded definite construction or neck (Fig. 18, B). pebbles. In the latter case, these pebbles Neck and shoulders are decorated with a N ---AB4 .. - . 1 L..... ---, -- -- AB 5 • ".--' 0 I 2 3' ! 1 "., EDGE OF I 0 SHEL~ METERS e; :----.J --- --- --- --AB6 <t 1/:·1·. ..·:1 ~"" ~: ---lI.I--~;.. '-.__eO .. "':."'."--_ e~~"'-......,.,..---. A B 7 ...... , . ..... " .. .' - I I I- eel •I - AB8 DL)iOl 0 1 f:t°f 0/ _° ---e -AB9 1 __. _0_ r-----~- AB 10 NO SHELL{I SHELL 0I .': --,-ABII I I IIW lOW 9W 8W 7W 6W 5W Fig. 15. Indian site: Excavation plan. AB5/6W t-3 E;3 o 20 40 60 80 100 E;3 ! ! ::0 ::0 t:<J CENTIMETERS a :t> ~ C/J ~ :s: 'U C/J H ..til EAST PROFILE ~ AB6/IIW gt-3 @ t-3 H C/J ~ ..E3 AB8/11W ~ C/J C/J:» a 8C/J t:<J t-3 t-3 ~ BLACK TOPSOIL C/J TOPSOIL WITH SHELL BROWN DIRT MIXED TOPSOIL AND SUBSOIL ~ YELLOW SUBSOIL WHITE SAND. 0::> Fig. 16. Indian site: Profiles through deposits. \.N 84 MASSACHUSETTS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: BULLETIN Worked bone is represented by a basal AB9/IOW AB9/IIW f'ragment of' a deer antler f'rom which the rest of' the antler has been removed by cutting SANDY LOAM AND SHE LL and breaking, a piece of' "whittled" bone or antler, and several bone tools. The latter include a stubby awl, three narrow awls, a single-barbed bone point, and a spatulate tool (Fig. 18, D-G). The upper end of' the latter has been ground to approach a spatula in form. o 20 40 60 BO Illustrated is a "peg-shaped" specimen CENTIMETERS of bone (Fig. 18, C). Both articular ends have been ground down, nearly to the surface ~ BROWN PIT B of the shaft. Dr. Bruno Oetteking, of the ~ BLACK BROWN Museum of' the American Indian, Heye Founda­ EAST-WEST PROFILE tion, New York City, has identified this ~ BLACK bone as "f'rom all app.earance a phalanx of either digit III or IV of' the right (or left) Fig. 17. Indian site: Profile through Pit B. human hand". One fragment of worked shell was found. design of interlocking triangles ,made by in­ It is about 3 em. long and eXhibits half of cising with a four-pronged tool on a smooth­ a hole, about 12 mm. in diameter. ed over, cord-ma1leated surf'ace. A third vessel, which is not shown, is decorated Charcoal from pits has been identified with rows of small shallow imprints made with by Dr. E1so S. Barghoorn, Jr., of the Biolo­ a bif'id tool applied to a surface which bears gical Laboratories, Harvard University, faint parallel lines. Some undecorated body cambridge, Mass., as oak and walnut. sherds are thought to belong to this vessel. Shells were chief'ly those of quahog Only a few sherds tempered with both (Venus mercenaria), oyster (Ostrea vir~inic~, shell and rounded pebbles are available. and scallop (Pecten irradians), wIth w Ich They are 1 em.
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