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January 2016

Although James Fort is famous for being the location of the first permanent English settlement in the New World, archaeology has shown that it was familiar […]

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December 2015

Dig Update Archive, 2004-present

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November 2015

Dig Update Archive, 2004-present

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October 2015

Dig Update Archive, 2004-present

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The Jamestown Project

Captain John Smith’s 1607 voyage to Jamestown was not his first trip abroad. He had traveled throughout Europe, been sold as a war captive in Turkey, […]

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September 2015

Building on this spring’s construction of a mud and stud outline for the 1608 church, Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists made a cedar railing in September to mark […]

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August 2015

related images Dig Update Archive, 2004-present

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A Tactful Reveal

The wooden cover decorated with tacks that archaeologists excavated in May 2015 may be the cover to a treasure box called a casket. “It would hold […]

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Timeline

1602 Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold, Capt. Gabriel Archer, and others voyage to the New England coast. 1603 Capt. Bartholomew Gilbert voyages to Chesapeake Bay; he and four […]

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July 2015

In 23 years of research, the Jamestown Rediscovery team has found the lost James Fort and the lost 1608 church within the fort, and now the […]

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