Deposit T.N. 28.—A test cutting inside the residence on the line of the supposed central hallway that revealed 9 inches of humus mixed with mortar and plaster resting on natural clay. From the above level came one bottle neck of about 1740. On this evidence and on the evidence of unstratified sherds found in the occupation area, it is assumed that the complex had been abandoned by the middle of the 18th century.
Dating: After about 1740.
Animal Remains
Animal bones and marine items were largely confined to the refuse pits previously discussed, although a few garbage bones and oystershells had been spread around the site in the course of the bulldozing. Bones from the pits comprised the usual range of ox, pig, and deer remains that are to be found amid the garbage of most colonial sites. A group of the less readily identifiable bones were submitted to the Smithsonian Institution for examination and the following identifications were provided:
Left humerus, wild duck, (white-winged scoter, Melanitta deglandi). From T.N. 17.
Fibula of pig (Sus scrofa), domestic. From T.N. 17.
Shaft of humerus, domestic goose. From T.N. 22.
Mandible of possum (Didelphis sp. marsupialis, subsp. virginiana), edible. From T.N. 22.
Mandible of "marine gar," or needlefish, of the Belonidae family, probably Strongylura marina (Walbaum), a very common sea fish in this area, which runs in fresh water, and is frequently eaten. From T.N. 24.
