Allen Gontz (pictured), a professor at UMass-Boston, and Ellen Berkland, the city's archeologist, began a search for Great Pond last year. (Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff)
Posted on 11/28/2008 9:11:26 AM PST by SunkenCiv
It was once one of the largest bodies of water in the now-extinct Dorchester Commons...
Allen Gontz, a professor of environmental, earth, and ocean sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and Ellen Berkland, the city's archeologist, began a search for Great Pond in 2007 as a project for Massachusetts Archaeology Month. Currently, they are working at a site in front of the Blake House - the oldest home (circa 1648) in Boston - on Columbia Road, where they believe the pond once sat before it was filled. Work on the site recently stopped for the winter and it may finish up in the spring...
Ground was broken at the Blake House site in October of last year, when Gontz and Berkland used ground-penetrating radar to provide a map of the property. Since then, a 4-by-12-foot trench has been dug on the lawn in front of the house, where the bulk of the research has been done...
Gontz estimates that about 1,500 items have been unearthed, including pottery, children's toys, animal bones, and a nearly century-old bottle of cough syrup that was still filled.
To find the site of Great Pond, Gontz and Berkland relied on street names - the site is situated off Pond Street - as well as the radar and landscape analysis. The site is "naturally where the pond should be located" based on its topographical location, said Gontz...
Though they know that the pond was created by glaciers between 14,000 and 18,000 years ago, Gontz and Berkland do not know exactly when the pond was filled. At this point, the pair has not reached the surface of the pond, though they project they are about 2 feet away from doing so.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Allen Gontz (pictured), a professor at UMass-Boston, and Ellen Berkland, the city's archeologist, began a search for Great Pond last year. (Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff)
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“created by glaciers” what happened to the glaciers. Did they MELY? Those GD dinosaurs and their SUV and factory coa;l burning society...geeeeessshh.
RevWar artifact potential? Dorchester Heights / Henry Knox bump
Thanks for the pings, guys...interesting, to be sure.
“now-extinct Dorchester Commons”
The last Dorchester Common is dead? This is a scandal!
Bush’s fault, but that goes without saying.
Gol dang him, ennyway.
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