Evidence Grows of Location of Kitchen at Slave Quarters
UAB Archaeology Field School
Eager to search for additional evidence of the kitchen at the Slave Quarters at Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park, field school participants line up to start digging. The crew split its time between the Quarters at Tannehill and the Gorgas Home at Brierfield Ironworks Historical State Parks, unearthing important new evidence about both sites. The new units at the Quarters yielded fragments of additional iron cooking vessels and large folk pottery storage vessels which support the hypothesis that a kitchen once stood here.
Ceramic tobacco pipe.
One of the more interesting artifacts found during the dig was this well preserved smoking pipe that doubtless provided its slave owner moments of pleasure during the arduous wartime years while the occupants of the Quarters made pig iron for the Confederacy.
Tags: 19th century, archaeology, civil war, Confederacy, Slave Quarters, tannehill, tobacco pipe