ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS AT THE CRISPELL COTTAGE IN HURLEY By Joseph E. Diamond, Department of Anthropology, SUNY New Paltz
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS AT THE CRISPELL COTTAGE, HURLEY
NATIONAL REGISTER DISTRICT, HURLEY, ULSTER COUNTY, NEW YORK
JOSEPH E. DIAMOND, Department of Anthropology, SUNY New Paltz, Member at large
March 2023
A block excavation 40 m2 in extent was excavated prior to the construction of a driveway at the Crispell Cottage in the Hurley National Register Historic District. Ten excavation units produced a total of 21,575 artifacts which included precontact Native American artifacts, Contact period materials, and historic artifacts relating to the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Significant finds (in chronological order) included a fluted point (Late Paleo-Indian), and Native American occupations from the Neville phase, Vosburg phase, Sylvan Lake phase, Orient phase, Adena phase, the Middle Woodland and Late Woodland periods. From the Historic period, a row of postmolds was encountered, as was evidence for a blacksmith shop in the immediate vicinity. Along the edge of the sidewalk, a limestone and chert layer appears to be an underlayment for the previous (nineteenth century) bluestone sidewalk
