As requested, here is a brief statement of our summer
          college dig.
 
          The project for a small class in archeology at Frederick
          Community College this summer was to layout the site grid
          for 18FR696 (Nat. Hist. Reg. # 93000665) and then to try to
          locate the old abondoned and filled-in, stone-lined, well
          from the late 1700s or early 1800s that was reported by
          early residents to have been on the west side of the house.
 
          In the last few hours of the last day of class, the class
          located the well.  The first well headstone was located
          about 2 feet below the modern surface of the yard wherein
          the dig was being done.
 
          In the process of locating the well and starting to define
          its circumference, several artifacts were located, including
          a bone button, some clay marbles, ceramic and glass shards,
          leather from an early shoe.  Follow-up studies of the shards
          show that some are the missing pieces of fragements of
          plates and saucers that have been located in a midden
          beneath the kitchen floor of the house, about 10 feet away
          from the well.  For example, a green edged pattern shard
          from the are of the well fit perfectly with another shard
          removed from beneath the kitchen last year.  Also, a blue
          cobalt broken oil lamp was recovered from the well.  The
          kitchen midden beneath the current kitchen floor contained a
          fragment of the oil lamp's glass chimney.
 
          Several of the students were so happy about finding the well
          head, that they have continued with the dig after class
          ended and are helping with the slow process of
          recovering the well and it's contents.