SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Archeological Site Assessment First and Second Pennsylvania Brigades Cantonment Morristown National Historical Park, Morristown, NJ
- Notice Date
- 8/2/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- NER - STLI Statue of Liberty National Monument Ellis Island Procurement Office Jersey City NJ 07305
- ZIP Code
- 07305
- Solicitation Number
- Q194005M016
- Response Due
- 8/30/2005
- Archive Date
- 8/2/2006
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Park Service at the Statue of Liberty National Monument is issuing a solicitation (Request for Quotation - RFQ) for conducting an archeological site assessment for the site of the First and Second Pennsylvania Brigades Cantonment (1779-1780) at Morristown National Historical Park, Morristown, New Jersey. Funds are not currently available for this project. This solicitation is being issued subject to the availability of funds. The project objective is to evaluate the structure and full extent of the cantonment and to identify specific locations of known and potential archeological resources including huts, roads, outbuildings, and special activity areas. Emphasis will be placed on geophysical survey of the site with limited ground-truthing of results. Ground penetrating radar (GPR), magnetometry (MAG), and electromagnetic conductivity (EM) will all be included as survey methods. Results will be depicted in GIS and additional layers will be created to show site topography, surface features, and areas of past excavations. The solicitation and all attachments will be posted to the Governmentwide Point of Entry (GPE) website, http://www.fedbizopps.gov on or about August 16, 2005. The NAICS 2002 code for this project is 541720 with a size standard of six million dollars, ($6,000,000.00). The approximate 12 acre project area is located on the western face of Sugar Loaf Hill in Jockey Hollow in the vicinity of the five huts reconstructed in the 1960s. An overview of Jockey Hollow history and archeology is contained in the Morristown National Historical Park Archeological Overview and Assessment prepared as a component of the Integrated Cultural Resource Report by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (University of Massachusetts 2001). The First and Second Pennsylvania Brigade project area was the subject of extensive archeological excavations conducted by Russell Baker in 1937, a project for which the field notes, report, and artifacts have been lost. A map survives which shows the location of C.C.C. structures at the site. Regional Archeologist John Cotter conducted an archeological survey of the project area prior to the reconstruction of huts in 1962 (Cotter 1962). Another assessment of this cantonment was conducted by Rutsch and Kim Peters (1975). A minor archeological compliance project was conducted in proximity to the huts by Steve Pendery (Pendery 1999). Past archeology has focused on a core area on the western slope of Sugar Loaf Hill that contained surface evidence for hut fireplace rubble. The Rochfontaine map of 1780 shows the two brigades stretching across the slope well beyond the areas tested by subsurface work. However, the presence of a significant stone wall cutting across the north end of the excavated site raises the question whether it contains re-used hut foundation and fireplace stones. Cotter found ferrous artifacts in association with the huts, yet no metal detector or magnetometer work has occurred at the Pennsylvania Line to date.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Morristown National Historical Park, Morristown NJ
- Zip Code: 079604299
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 079604299
- Record
- SN00860569-W 20050804/050802212640 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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