As we toil away on our slave quarter site here at Poplar Forest, we've come up with the inevitable questions about artifact dating time lag on slave sites. Our ceramic and nail assemblages strongly suggest a late 18th-early 19th century date for the site, and our current speculation is leaning towards c.1790-c.1810 (maybe I should replace "speculation" with "theory"!). We did, however, find an 1810 coin in plowzone, which has raised some questions about the occupation termination date. Now, one artifact in plowzone won't necessarily change our perception of the site, but we were wondering if anyone knew a way to distinguish between assemblages terminating in 1810 from those terminating in 1815. I realise that this is post is probably going to garner answers in the negative, but it can't hurt to ask. Ta, Alasdair M. Brooks Archaeology Lab Supervisor Jefferson's Poplar Forest ([log in to unmask])