Digging for trash and finding treasure at Mount Vernon. From: The Magazine Antiques | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: Pogue, Dennis J.; White, Esther C.; Breen, Eleanor E. | COPYRIGHT 2005 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

When workmen digging to install a sprinkler head for a new irrigation system uncovered fragments of an English tin-glazed earthenware punch bowl, pieces of dark green wine bottle glass, oyster shells, and a wrought nail. Mount Vernon's archaeologists knew that they were onto something important. Finding eighteenth-century refuse was not a total surprise, for the hole for the sprinkler was roughly sixty feet from the kitchen building and about one hundred feet from the house itself,...

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