I'm not sure what you mean by details being passed over in  
documentation. In Delaware, the type with a vaulted top appear very  
similar in design and construction from the exterior. However, the  
long answer is probably more complex. Since few have undergone  
extensive or intensive investigation, only general statements can be  
made. This is made even more difficult by the fact that the level of  
investigation required for a particular burial location most often  
involves determining presence or absence, followed by avoidance in  
the case of the former, resulting in limited documentation.  
Nonetheless, saying that Delaware is lousy with single-internment  
brick burial vaults is simply to say that there are many present. The  
statement in no way implies that they are all the same in detail.

And Tim, to clarify my first post, the vaults I refer to are single- 
internment. Some could contain more than one person, I assume,  
however, both size and investigated examples suggest strongly that  
all of the type I refer to are single-internment. As for my reference  
to "various forms," I slipped away from strictly brick vaults to  
brick-lined shafts.

Tim


On Apr 12, 2009, at 3:00 AM, HISTARCH automatic digest system wrote:

> Date:    Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:55:53 EDT
> From:    Ron May <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Brick burial vaults
>
> But is this a case of "seen one, seen 'em all"? I am beginning to  
> wonder if
>  the architecture is identical in Delaware, South Carolina,  
> Louisiana and
> out  here in the Far Southwest? When I read statements like,  
> "Delaware is
> lousy with  them," I begin to wonder if some important details were  
> passed over
> in the  science of documentation?
>
> Ron May
> Legacy 106, Inc.
>
>
> In a message dated 4/11/2009 5:08:21 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> In the  recent past, Heite Consulting, Inc. has documented the
> presence of  brick burial vaults (of various forms at one cemetery),
> and has  conducted emergency recovery of one burial in a vault damaged
> by a  backhoe. Reports on are file the the DE SHPO. I imagine others
> have  prepared reports on cemeteries in Delaware that would be at the
> SHPO  office for, as James Gibb noted, Delaware is lousy with them.
>
> Tim  Mancl, RPA
> Project Archeologist
> John Milner Associates, Inc.
> 535  North Church Street
> West Chester, PA 19380
> (610) 436-9000  (phone)
> (610) 436-8468 (fax)
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