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July 2007

After giving up its treasure of arms and armor in May, the cellar of a building just inside the eastern palisade wall of James Fort is […]

June 2007

The outlines of unmarked grave shafts continue to be discovered in the southwest section of James Fort. Archaeologists are hoping that this means the original church […]

May 2007

A single grave in the current excavation area, about 200 ft. from the existing 17th-century church tower, appears to be contemporary with 21 other graves in […]

April 2007

Archaeologists excavating an area near the western palisade wall of James Fort are pushing east along the shore of the James River. Excavations in 2005 led […]

November 2006

The Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists are conducting experimental archaeology on the site of one of the fort buildings that may have been a barracks from ca. 1608. […]

October 2006

Though James Fort ceased to exist over 350 years ago, 12 years of archaeology have revealed its walls’ exact footprint on the landscape. The archaeologists have […]

September 2006

Did the colonists at Jamestown build a fort within a fort? That’s the question the Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists are asking themselves as a peculiar ditch discovered […]

August 2006

Another interesting underground feature has been discovered by the archaeologists at Historic Jamestowne. Although it is far too early to tell definitively what it is, probing […]

July 2006

Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists have reached undisturbed soil in an early 17th century well discovered inside the northern corner of James Fort. The fact that the soil […]

June 2006

This year’s field school is in session and the students are helping the Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists dig near the northern bulwark of James Fort. Excavation of […]

March 2006

Archaeologists excavating an early well near James Fort’s north bulwark have uncovered a wealth of early artifacts and have reached the water table, the depth at […]

February 2006

Because of an unusually mild January, Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists have been able to make solid progress in the excavation of a very early well inside James […]

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