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December 2014

 It’s now likely that this summer’s work by the Jamestown Rediscovery team has uncovered a second fort period structure outside the James Fort’s original triangular palisade. In […]

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Chief Powhatan

He is of parsonage a tall well proportioned man . . . his head somwhat gray. . . . His age neare 60; of a very […]

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Virginia Company

England was a relatively poor nation in the late 1500s, with a ruler willing to send privateers against other colonial powers but unwilling to risk public […]

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Phase II of repairs to church tower completed

In 2014 historic trades workers from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, maintenance workers from Preservation Virginia, and two master masons completed the second phase of repairs to […]

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November 2014

 A Kentucky team has used ground-penetrating radar to explore sites in Mexico, Italy, and across their own commonwealth. This month they took their own time […]

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Francis Nicholson Wine Jug

Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists found 10 onion-shaped glass bottles made in England between 1680 and 1700, clustered upright on the dirt floor near one wall of an […]

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Jane

Jane: Starvation, Cannibalism, And Endurance At Jamestown

[3rd Edition]

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Chinese Wine Cup

This is a reproduction of rare and expensive Chinese porcelain wine cups found in the c. 1610 James Fort cellar. Gentlemen probably used the cups to […]

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