1626 results found for:

Soldier Pits

Living in holes in the ground Five small pit features dating to the early years of James Fort were found inside the fort close to the […]

Read more

Journal Articles

journal of the jamestown rediscovery center The following articles were previously published by Jamestown Rediscovery within the electronic Journal of the Rediscovery Center, volumes 1 and […]

Read more

History of Jamestown

“The thirteenth day, we came to our seating place in Paspiha’s country . . . where our ships do lie so near the shore that they […]

Read more

Palisades

Finding the Walls of the Fort All that remains of the palisade fence at James Fort are stains in the soil. In the spring of 1607, […]

Read more

January 2015

 This winter Senior Conservator Dan Gamble has been conserving and researching artifacts associated with early modern European books. Twenty years of excavations at the James […]

Read more

Categories

Behind-the-Scenes ToursBlacksmithing DemonstrationCentury of WomenChildren's ProgramCooper DemonstrationCurator's Artifact ToursEvening ProgramFamily-Friendly ProgramFirst AfricansForensic Fridays 1 2 >

Read more

2004

In 2004 the Jamestown Rediscovery team investigated the west bulwark trench at James Fort’s western corner. Northeast of that bulwark, archaeologists uncovered cobblestone foundations for two […]

Read more

2005

In 2005, archaeologists followed James Fort’s west wall footprint to the fort’s north bulwark and continued work on the foundations for the rowhouses (ca. 1611) just […]

Read more

2006

The 2006 dig season focused on the excavation of an early fort-period well in James Fort’s north corner. Other features included two pits filled ca. 1610 […]

Read more

2007

Visitors to the James Fort site during the 400th anniversary of Jamestown wondered if some of the ongoing fantastic moments of discovery were staged. They were […]

Read more

2008

Archaeologists continued to work on the complicated feature that began as a blacksmith site and became a bread oven bakery cellar. The cellar was abandoned and […]

Read more