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PETERSBURG
MAIN UNIT

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An Archaeological Overview and Assessment of the
Main Unit, Petersburg National Battlefield, Virginia

Table 6.3
Thematic contexts and associated property types (VDHR 1992) within Main Unit

Context

Northeast

Southeast

Central

Western

Domestic: dwellings

secondary structures

(prehistoric)

houses

barns

(Wd1 camp?)

sites:house, outbuildings

(prehistoric?

sites:house,

outbuildings

(LA3 lithics)

sites:house,

outbuildings

(prehistoric?)

Subsistence/Agriculture

(prehistoric)

fields/barns

(gathering)

outbuildings

(?)

outbuildings

(hunting)

outbuildings

(?)

Political

       

Health/Medicine

       

Education

       

Military/Defense

Dimmock line

AP2 works & camps

WWI works

Dimmock

AP camps

WWI camps

Harrison Ck

AP line & camps

ANV4 line

ANV line

Crater

AP picket

Religion

       

Social

       

Recreation/Arts

       

Transportation

18c. roads

farm roads

18c. roads,

19c. railroad

18c. road

Commerce/Trade

       

Industry/Processing

       

Landscape

agricultural

agricultural

agricultural

agricultural

Funerary

19c. graves

     

Ethnicity/Immigration

European;

African slaves

European;

African

European;

African

European;

African

Settlement Patterns

plantation

distributions

farm

distributions

plantation

distributions

farm

distributions

Architecture

structure

sites

structure

sites

sites, 19c.

kitchen

structure

site

Technology/Engineering

     

CW mine

1 Wd = Woodland (prehistoric)

2 AP = Army of the Potomac (Union)

3 LA = Late Archaic (prehistoric)

4 ANV = Army of Northern Virginia (Confederate)

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