Locus 1 Prehistoric

Top: Quartz Small Stemmed Point; Bottom Left to Right: Rhyolite Drill/ Graver, Rhyolite Uniface, Rhyolite Utilized Flake, Quartzite Atlantic Point Tip and Midsection

These artifacts are from the Locus I/ Donkey Barn Site at Taylor Bray Farm. The site was discovered in 2011 during and archaeological intensive survey and then further examined during a 2012 site examination. All of these artifacts came from an area measuring 10 x 10 meters and they were associated with a fire-cracked rock (FCR) concentration. The FCR appears to have come from a stone boiling episode in the Transitional Archaic Period (3,700-2,700 BP) associated with the Small Stemmed/ Narrow Point and the Atlantic Phase of the Susquehanna traditions. Taylor Bray Farm represents a unique location where the interplay between the local Small Stemmed Tradition and the early phase of the Susquehanna Tradition is readily visible at several separate concentrations at three separate loci.