The Bandini-Cota Adobe, Prado Dam, Riverside County, California.
Abstract
Test excavations have been conducted at the Bandini-Cota Adobe, Prado Dam, Riverside County, California, as the second phase of an investigation leading toward mitigation of adverse effects. The purposes were to contribute to public understanding of the site and to develop research questions for additional studies. The results demonstrated the significant data potential of both sub-surface deposits of cultural materials and the remains of the structure itself. The features tested included two trash deposits and a hitherto unrecorded retaining wall. Two assemblages were defined and localized; Chinese, British, and Southern California Brown Ware ceramics, animal bone butchered in the Californio manner, and the first, discarded roof of the adobe represented the middle years of the nineteenth century. Later ceramics, glass, domestic discards, and later structural refuse were dated to 1870-1905. Some evidence and many new questions are discussed about the possible sequence and direction of alterations to the structure in light of architectural history.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1983
- Accession Number
- ADA144613
Entities
People
- J. D. Frierman
- J. M. Foster
- R. S. Greenwood