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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On Apr 11, 2009, at 3:00 AM, HISTARCH automatic digest system wrote:

> From: "Timothy B Riordan" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 11:57:35 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Brick burial vaults
>
> I am looking for archaeological references to single-internment, brick
> burial vaults. So far I have come across a lot of anecdotal  
> evidence but
> no real references. My sense is they are often encountered in cemetery
> work but I have not been able to get my hands on any reports. Can  
> anyone
> point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim