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John Smith statue and a brick church tower surrounded by a scaffold in the background

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 […]

November 19, 2014

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man pushes a ground penetrating radar unit along a transect line

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 […]

November 10, 2014

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October 2014

A corner may be emerging in the large pit feature found just northeast of the 1608 James Fort extension, but there is not yet a […]

October 10, 2014

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Archaeologist speaks to a group of visitors

September 2014

The button from a doublet jacket of the type Captain John Smith wore in his portrait. A copper alloy finger ring with the remains of […]

September 11, 2014

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August 2014

Interesting artifacts started appearing even as Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists did preliminary preparation of the large pit feature near the corner of the James Fort extension. […]

August 11, 2014

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July 2014

The pieces of brick found in large depression just north of the 1907 Memorial Church could be remnants from a brick church that stood more than 300 […]

July 11, 2014

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June 2014

For years the outstretched arms of Pocahontas have beckoned visitors to explore. Now it looks like she was also trying to call the attention of […]

June 11, 2014

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May 2014

In June a new exhibit at the Voorhees Archaearium will reveal new details about the material world of Virginia’s Native peoples and their interaction with […]

May 11, 2014

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April 2014

Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists have returned to an area outside the western palisade of James Fort where they worked a decade ago, near where they found […]

April 11, 2014

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