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ffii/l System 



DESCRIPTIONS OF EXCAVATIONS 



On April 2, 1956, the junction point of the thiix 

 walls roinid in the 1954 test was recxcavated. The 

 bottom layer of horizontally placed stones 1.8-1.9 

 feet wide was foiuid in situ, while most of the vertical 

 stones from the second course had been broken or 

 knocked ofT by repeated plowiiiE;. Construction of 

 the hichway had completely removed a section of 

 the wall. The corner of the two brick walls was 

 revealed to have been superimposed on the northern- 

 most foimdation block of the stone wall, thus indi- 

 cating that the stone wall preceded the building 

 of the brick ones. The upper stone block that bad 

 been removed to make room for this brick corner 

 still lay a few feet to the east where it had been cast 

 aside in the 18th centur\-. This part of the stone wall. 

 toneth<T with its continuation besond the hivjhway to 

 the creek, was designated Wall .\ (figs. 21 and 24). 



Exposure of the brick wall running westward from 

 Wall .A (designated Wall .A I) disclosed broken caps 

 in the brickwork, the gaps ranging from 1.8 to 3 feet 

 in length, and the intei-\enin(» stretches of intact 

 wall, from 7.33 to 8 feet. Eight-foot spacings arc 

 normal for the settings of modern wooden fence 

 posts, as such a fence .south of the highway illustrated. 

 It is assumed. therefor<-, that, following the destruc- 

 tion of the exposed part of the brick wall, a woodei 

 fence was built along the same line, recjuirine the 

 removal of bricks to permit the setting of fi-nrr p.i>i< 

 (fig. 26). 



\V.ill A I intersected the modern highwav at an 



acute angle, di.sappeared thereunder and reappeared 

 beyond. South of the clump of trees it abutted 

 another wall of different construction which ran 

 continuously in the same direction for 28 feet. Be- 

 cause of their manner of construction, the two walk 

 at their point of juncture were not iiu 

 hence, probably were constructed at di; 

 The 28-foot section later pioved to be the south wall 

 of the mansion, il 1 as B. T" 



considered when cture is < 



another section that continued for less than 4 feet to 

 the point where a 12-foot modern driveway crossed 

 over it.) 



To the west of the driveway another wall (B-I), 

 still in line with Wall A-I, • 

 "cutt." ( )f this only one brii k 

 brick and a half thick. A>x>ui midway in its lenitth 

 were slight indicat -i . • ... ... 



expanded for a ^! 



however, the crumbled condition of tl 

 mortar fragments made this inferenr 

 Ne.ir the edge of the "gutt," I . 

 southwest corner of the Str\iciiire B mai 

 Wall B I terminated in i ' ' 

 the other -lide of which \\ 

 This wall ran 384 feet in a southwrsirrlv direction 



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the 



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iv; >i 11 >• 1 V 



-^ A, A-l. B I 

 tos;ethrr with the creek bank, form an encios«irc 



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