Archaeological Testing in the Mission Concepción Courtyard (41BX12), San Antonio, Texas

Abstract

This report describes archaeological investigations conducted

Archaeological Investigations in the Courtyard of Mission Nuestra Señora de la Purisima Concepción Acuña (41BX12)

“…Figure 3-1 is a 1989Ivey and Fox 1999;Krueger and Meskill 1992; composite of previous excavations at the mission. We Labadie 1989;Meissner 2001;Miller and Meissner 2001; have reviewed nine reports summarizing the results of Scurlock and Fox 1977). The locations of the archaeological units depicted in Figure 3-1 were derived from maps provided in these reports.…”

“…In 1999, CAR conducted excavations at Mission Concepción related to the construction activities associated with the Mission Trails Underground Conversion Project (Meissner 2001). During excavations for a manhole, south of the Visitors' Center, a portion of an acequia was encountered that had been filled.…”

“…In January of 2000, CAR was contracted to test the courtyard area south of the church prior to exposing and stabilizing Colonial period walls and floors (Miller and Meissner 2001;Figures 3-1 and 3-3). The goal of archaeological investigations was to determine the depth of the original floors of the buried rooms within the courtyard.…”

“…Concepción (Meissner 2001) San José (Meissner 1999a) San José (Meissner 1999b) San José (Meissner 1998) San Juan (Meissner 2001) Espada (Meissner 2004) (Weniger 1997:127-131).…”