Introduction: Lots 8, 9, and 15 are modern designations for adjacent parcels of land that were owned together and used as a single property until the early 1830's. Lots 8 and 9 front Pearl Street and are important to the Stadt Huys project because they contained archaeological remnants of the Colonial-era Lovelace Tavern, a public house built around 1670. The Lovelace Tavern was the most important discovery on the Stadt Huys project because it proved that significant archaeological resources still existed in urban spaces.
Rationale: Test Cut V was excavated during the initial phase of field work and was important in the development of the site's testing methodology. The test cut was located along the eastern wall of Lot 9 in the vicinity of the the Lovelace Tavern. No deposits associated with Lovelace were found. Instead, project archaeologists uncovered evidence of a different early-eighteenth century building that post-dated the destruction of the Tavern in 1706.
Results: An Auger Test was undertaken to assess the stratigraphy of Test Cut V to a depth of 36-inches below excavation surface. No additional cultural layers were uncovered.
Lot 9, Test Cut V, Auger Test V
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