There are a number of reports and papers concerning Catoctin.  I sent about a
50 page bibliography that I have assembled to Bonnie Ryan for her student.  I
just finished an MA at Wm. & Mary on the Virginia colonial iron industry.  The
references for Catoctin are:

Contract Archaeology, Inc.
 1971 An Historical and Archaeological Survey of Land Affected by the
Dualization of U. S. Route 15 at the Catoctin Iron Furnace.  On file at the
Maryland Historical Trust, Annapolis, Maryland.

Kelly, Jennifer Olsen and J. Lawrence Angel
 1983 The Workers of Catoctin Furnace.  Maryland Archeology 19(1):2-17.

Milner, John
 1975 Catoctin Iron Furnace, Cunningham Falls State Park.  Monograph.
National Heritage Corporation, West Chester, Pennsylvania.

National Heritage Corporation
 1975 Catoctin Iron Furnace, Cunningham Falls State Park, Thurmont, Maryland.
On file at the Maryland Historical Trust, Annapolis, Maryland.

Orr, Kenneth G. and Ronald G. Orr
 1975 Field Report on the Archaeological Situation at the Catoctin Furnace
Stack 2 Casting Shed Site, Frederick County, Maryland.  On file at the
Maryland Geological Survey, Division of Archeology, Baltimore.

Parrington, Michael and Helen Schenck
 1982 A Report on the Excavation of an Ancillary Area (Site 18FR320) of the
Historic Ironworking Complex at Catoctin Furnace, Frederick Count, Maryland.
On file at the Maryland Historical Trust, Annapolis, Maryland.

The reference for Great Falls is:

Troup, Charles G., Arthur G. Barnes, and Norman F. Barka
 1978 The Potts and Wilson Iron forge/Foundry: Paowmack Canal.  Submitted to
Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern and the National Park Service, Contract No.
CX-2000-7-0055.  Copies available at the Virginia Department of Historic
Resources, File FX2.

If anyone is interested in a specific site, I may well have it in my
bibliography.

James H. Brothers IV

"Richard_J._Dent/potomac/Faculty/ANTHR/CAS/AmericanU" wrote:

> Hi all -  I believe that the Catoctin Furnace cemetery in Western Maryland
> was excavated and reported (somewhere, perhaps in the Maryland
> Archaeologist?)  The Maryland Historic Trust Library in Crownsville,
> Maryland would be a good place to look for that literature.  There was also
> an idea floating around that those enslaved at the site might have been
> taken from certain parts of Africa known for iron working skill (earlier
> and much advanced there).  I also want to mention that an iron forge was
> excavated at Great Falls Park in Virginia by Southside.  The latter
> organization was once in some way affiliated with William and Mary College,
> but the National Park Service would be the place to start looking for the
> report.  The forge was part of an early, small industrial community that
> focused around the Patowmack Canal.
>
> Joe Dent