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The House for Families site consists of a 6-by-6 foot, brick-lined
cellar remnant, which was intruded by modern construction. No additional
architectural or landscape features related to this quarter survive.
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The House for Families cellar was excavated in two field seasons,
each run by different principal investigators. Each excavator employed their
own sampling strategy. Contexts excavated by the Virginia Research Center for
Archaeology (1984-1985), identified as "40," were waterscreened through 1/4
inch mesh. The remaining feature contexts excavated by archaeologists employed
by the MVLA were labelled "47" and were floated and waterscreened. During the
removal of the backfill from the 1984-1985 excavations, a substantial portion
of the cellar cross-section collapsed. Those sediments were processed as a
single mixed provenience (47DELTA) and were waterscreened through
one-quarter-inch wire mesh. The remaining intact portion of the fill was
excavated stratigraphically, with all sediments removed and subjected to
flotation off-site.
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