Sharain Jones, excavating in test pit #4, 1998.
Profile and Plan below. |
This site was first identified in 1992. Two test pits were
excavated in 1993, but no diagnostic artifacts were retrieved.
More extensive testing was carried out here in 1998 resulting in
artifacts that allowed a date range of 1783-1790 to
be assigned to AkDi-6. This puts AkDi-6 in the complex of
Black Loyalist settlers' sites, through the presence of cream-
ware and absence of pearlware and is supported by a wine bottle
finish dating between 1770 and 1790. The absence of pearl-
ware and the fairly rudimentary nature of the dwelling
represented by the depression feature may indicate a relatively
short term occupation - perhaps the result of the inhabitants
moving to Sierra Leone. |
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