Pit 119: Level 2

Completed on March 21, 2021 by Stephany North, Kim Masters, Jocelyn and DC Locke, Odess and David Brinkman. Level two continued the pattern of the area of a Granby storage building with higher relative numbers of stoneware and lower numbers of window glass. What would turn out to be the best find of the pit, while cleaning the south-west corner of the pit, a large green glass wine bottle piece was found. It was the bottom portion of a bottle and it gave us plenty of curvature to calculate the diameter of the bottle. It was a small diameter (3.6") which almost certainly narrows down the date to be 1800. This also matches the unique bottle top that was found in an adjacent pit (pit 62) which was also 1800. This, no doubt, belonged to the Samuel Johnston family who lived here beteween 1791 and 1820.

Pit 119: Level 2 produced: 14 pieces of pottery, one bone, three Native American, 21 glass, three nails, and six iron.