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Broad Creek Soapstone Quarries

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Pacolet River ancient soapstone quarry.

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VDOT: Discovering the First Virginians

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ASNJ 05-31-20 Jesse Walker, Native American Archaeology at the Hoffman Site: An Overview

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Soapstone Jewelry

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Bob Wall - 2020 Workshop in Archaeology - Cobble Reduction and Tool Production at the Elkridge Site

The Broad Creek Soapstone Quarries, also known as Orr Prehistoric Steatite Quarry Archeological Site, is an archeological site located near Dublin, just south of Whiteford, Harford County, Maryland. The site includes evidence of the manufacture of vessels from boulders instead of from bedrock. This activity dated from 1700 to 1000 B.C.