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History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology

City of Castoville

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Archaeological Survey Of A Portion Of The Proposed Castroville Regional Park Improvement And Expansion, City Of Castroville, Medina County, Texas, Richard B. Mahoney Jan 2004

Archaeological Survey Of A Portion Of The Proposed Castroville Regional Park Improvement And Expansion, City Of Castroville, Medina County, Texas, Richard B. Mahoney

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

During January 2004, the Center for Archaeological Research of The University of Texas at San Antonio conducted an archaeological survey of a selected portion (300 feet by 7 feet) of the proposed expansion and improvement of Castroville Regional Park in the City of Castroville, Medina County, Texas. The Phase I survey consisted of the excavation of six shovel tests. A single previously unrecorded prehistoric archaeological site (41ME134) was encountered atop a ridge landform. Abundant amounts of burned rock and lithic debitage, along with several tested cobbles, a few cores, and one non-diagnostic uniface were encountered at ground surface and within …