Brooklyn's Eighteenth-Century Lott House: Stratigraphy Lesson


Stone Kitchen Unearthed	"Brooklyn's Eighteenth-Century Lott House" 1999-2001

The cross-section or "scarp" shows distinct horizontal deposits that represent different periods and uses. Most important, the dark band at the center of the scarp is a layer of modern heating coal from the 1920s. Our certainty of the date for this deposit provides us with a terminus post quem: everything found below this layer was deposited before ca. 1920; everything above was deposited after. The stratigraphy also indicates that the stone kitchen may have been used in the 1920s as a coal storage bin. The brown layer above the band of coal is modern topsoil. Below the coal is a tan, woodish looking layer that was once the floor of the stone feature. Below it are layers reflecting even earlier floors. (Courtesy Brooklyn College)

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