Beneath the Ivory Tower: The Archaeology of Academia

Illustrations

Illustrations Figures Figure 2.1. Saints’ Rest at the time of its construction in 1857 13 Figure 2.2. The Michigan Agricultural College in the 1870s 14 Figure 2.3. Plan of excavation units at Saints’ Rest 23 Figure 2.4. Plan of the cellar floor at Saints’ Rest 25 Figure 2.5. Distribution of kitchen-related items recovered from the cellar floor at Saints’ Rest 26 Figure 2.6. Distribution of buttons recovered from the cellar floor at Saints’ Rest 27 Figure 2.7. Distribution of stoves and stovepipes from the fill context at Saints’ Rest 28 Figure 2.8. Distribution of ceramics associated with personal hygiene from the fill context at Saints’ Rest 29 Figure 2.9. Distribution of furniture hardware from the fill context at Saints’ Rest 30 Figure 2.10. Distribution of clothing-related items from the fill context at Saints’ Rest 31 Figure 2.11. Distribution of writing equipment from the fill context at Saints’ Rest 31 Figure 2.12. Reconstructed plan of the southeastern corner of the excavation portion of the cellar floor at Saints’ Rest 32 Figure 2.13. Distribution of construction materials in the cellar floor at Saints’ Rest 33 Figure 3.1. Old College and the Log Chapel today 37 Figure 3.2. Sanborn Company map of the Old College site in 1885 38 Figure 3.3. Notre Dame farms with hog lot near Old College in 1888 38 Figure 3.4. Locations of the magnetic survey grid and excavation units 40 Figure 3.5. Contour map of the magnetic data 41 Figure 3.6. Profile maps of the Log Chapel unit 43 Figure 3.7. Locations of control and magnetic anomaly units within the magnetic survey grid 44 Figure 3.8. Map of structures at the Old College site in 1885 along with the magnetic survey grid and excavation units 46 x Illustrations Figure 3.9. Farmhouse that produced the architectural debris located by the magnetic survey 47 Figure 4.1. Current layout of the Horseshoe on the campus of the University of South Carolina in Columbia 53 Figure 4.2. An invoice for well buckets and chains for two wells on the Horseshoe in 1882 54 Figure 4.3. A close-up view of the Elliott/Harper well house, with Legare and Pinckney Colleges in the background 55 Figure 4.4. A view of the south end of the trench, revealing buggy ruts in the central Horseshoe area 58 Figure 4.5. The trench at Rutledge College, showing the arc of the well-hole feature beneath the sidewalk 59 Figure 4.6. Students pointing to the outer edge of the large hole for the well at DeSaussure College 60 Figure 4.7. Students working on removing artifacts from the top few feet of the Elliott/Harper well 60 Figure 4.8. Science-related artifacts 61 Figure 4.9. Medicine bottles from the Elliott/Harper College well 62 Figure 4.10. Selected artifacts from the Horseshoe 63 Figure 4.11. A blue transfer-printed whiteware pitcher from the Horseshoe excavation 64 Figure 4.12. Comparison between the modern floor plan of DeSaussure College and the archaeologically revealed ditches for the originally planned location 65 Figure 5.1. The Massachusetts Agricultural College Class of 1878 on the steps of North College 76 Figure 5.2. Map showing the approximate location of the pine tree and the time capsule 77 Figure 5.3. Photograph of the white pine tree of the Class of 1878 77 Figure 5.4. Selected objects found during the time capsule excavations 79 Figure 5.5. The 1877 time capsule in situ 80 Figure 5.6. The copper box of the time capsule 81 Figure 5.7. The 1877 time capsule contents 82 Figure 5.8. The 1991 burial of a time capsule 90 Figure 6.1. Map of Harvard Yard: detail of Old Yard area, 1935 100 Figure 6.2. Major archaeological excavations in Harvard Yard to 2007 101 Figure 6.3. Selection of artifacts excavated from Harvard Yard 103 Figure 6.4. “BP” tankard excavated from Harvard Yard 108 Figure 6.5. 1783. Holden Chapel, Cambridge 109 Illustrations xi Figure 6.6. A Midnight Foray into the Medical Room in Holden Chapel 110 Figure 6.7. Bible and printing type excavated from Harvard Yard 113 Figure 6.8. Indian College plaque 114 Figure 6.9. Opening ceremonies: 2005 and 2007 117 Figure 6.10...