Yesterday I wrote about the line of large structural postholes in the so-called Cemetery Locus. We did not excavate completely any of those postholes. Had we done so, I think we would have found something like what I had excavated at the 1660s-1680s Patuxent Point site in Calvert County in 1989/1990.The drawing shows what two of these postholes looked like on the surface and then, below those planviews, what they looked like in section after one-half of each was excavated. The ring around the postmolds in both cases probably represent replacement of the original posts.
I found a similar arrangement at the Garrett's Chance site in Prince George's County, Maryland, several years ago. All six of those posts clearly had been replaced. (See http://www.gibbarchaeology.org/GAC_Pages/discoveries/garretts_chance/garretts_chance.html, or just search on gibbarchaeology.com, select the Discoveries page, then Garrett's Chance). Garrett's Chance probably was occupied from the 1690s through 1720s.
Jim
PS. There will not be a lab day at Crownsville tomorrow (Monday). The crew will be working at my office.
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