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Are you sure this isn't marl - i.e., entirely natural? Have a geologist
look at it to be sure.
Maureen Basedow, Ph.d
Greensboro, NC
Sarah Miller wrote:
>Fellow Histarchies,
>
>Recently on an early nineteenth-century site in
>Kentucky we found a 20 cm thick layer of granular,
>almost fried looking limestone. It chips off the sub
>easily at 47 cm below the surface. Historically, we
>know they made bricks and processed mortar on the
>site. A few weeks and a county later, I saw a similar
>layer on a mid-nineteenth-century farm residence. No
>artifacts were found in either layer.
>
>My question is- has anyone else seen this in relation
>to mortar processing or other activities? From the
>Histarch archives I have a reference for Harley
>McKee's Intro to Early American Masonry... Any
>examples from archaeological contexts would be most
>helpful.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Sarah
>
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>Kentucky Archaeological Survey
>Lexington, KY
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