What other artifacts were recovered from this context? Does this
interpretation fit with the assemblage?
Bill Liebeknecht
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http://www.enasco.com/c/farmandranch/Calf+Rearing/Weaners/
Rachel seems to be right on this.
Mark Howe
"Life is how you make it, the future is how you leave your past."
> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:07:24 -0500
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> I think this could be a calf-weaner (everyone keep your lecherous
> sniggers in check). It looks a little bent and out of shape, not
> surprising if it is 250 year old, but you would have put the round
> part around a calf's nose with the spikes sticking out. It prevents
> them from nursing by poking the mother when they try to suckle. These
> were not uncommon implements on a farm, and I have come across a few
> in my work in Texas. This looks a little different from the ones I
> have seen, but I think people devised a wide variety of apparatuses to
wean calves.
>
> Rachel Feit
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> King, Julia
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 5:17 PM
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> Dear HistArchers,
>
> One of our students, Andreas Lutz, is in an Archaeology Practicum
> class at St. Mary's College where he along with his colleagues is
> cataloging, analyzing, and interpreting materials from the Addison
> Plantation site (18PR175; aka Oxon Hill) located in Prince George's
> County, MD. He has come across several iron artifacts, and links to
> images of one of these objects are posted below. Andreas has shown
> these to archaeologists at various institutions around the region,
> with some tentative -- but still unsatisfying -- identifications. The
> context is cellar fill believed to date to c. 1730s. Later disturbance
> is possible but not likely. I told Andreas about the "hundreds of
> years of experience" represented by HISTARCH; colleagues, if you have
> suggestions for Andreas, we would both be grateful for your assistance!
Here are the links:
>
> http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o289/knifetrader/Addisson%20Artifac
> ts
> /18PR17503.jpg
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> http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o289/knifetrader/Addisson%20Artifac
> ts
> /18PR17501.jpg
>
> Julie King
> St. Mary's College of MD
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