Abstract
Captain David Brown was a major participant in the April 19, 1775 skirmish at the North Bridge, Concord, Massachusetts, and his house stood very close to the battlefield. Diary entries record that his house was dismantled in 1868 and that the filling of the cellar hole began on October 16th of the same year. Archaeologists uncovered the cellars of two houses on the David Brown property: one cellar fill contained only probable 18th-century artifacts; the second contained 18th- to mid-19th-century artifacts. Pollen data indicating that the second cellar hole was filled in the fall link that cellar hole to diary entries, confirming the identification of the structure as the David Brown house.
DOI
10.22191/neha/vol23/iss1/4
Recommended Citation
Kelso, Gerald K.; Dwyer, Alison D.; and Synenki, Alan T.
(1994)
"The Pollen Record Formation Processes of a Rural Cellar Fill: Identification of the Captain Brown House, Concord, Massachusetts,"
Northeast Historical Archaeology:
Vol.
23
23, Article 4.
https://doi.org/10.22191/neha/vol23/iss1/4
Available at:
https://orb.binghamton.edu/neha/vol23/iss1/4
