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July 2017

Thanks to precise and patient trowel work by staff and intern archaeologists, the east churchyard site opened by the 2017 Jamestown Field School students finally yielded […]

April 2017

During April, the Jamestown Rediscovery team continued excavations in the 1907 Memorial Church, site of three historic Jamestown churches. They focused on the Knight’s Tombstone and […]

March 2017

Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists continued excavations in the 1907 Memorial Church this March, focusing on the foundations of the 1617 church. For decades visitors have been able […]

2017

Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists are examining the area in and around the 20th-century Memorial Church to look for evidence of two earlier churches—constructed c. 1617 and c. […]

January 2017

Although the recent tests in and around the church have been small, they have provided the team with invaluable explanations regarding previous excavations in the early […]

December 2016

Periodically and weather permitting, the Jamestown Rediscovery archaeological staff is continuing field work during the winter months. Our primary focus is to expand excavations in the […]

August 2016

As is often the case, the most compelling features surface after our annual summer field school, and students and interns have departed. This year was no […]

June 2016

June brought the opening of the 2016 Jamestown Rediscovery Field School and the opportunity to investigate areas adjacent to the north side of the 1907 Memorial […]

April 2015

Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists have created a new way to mark the site of the 1608 church where Pocahontas and English tobacco grower John Rolfe were married. […]

The First General Assembly

the oldest continuous law-making body in the western hemisphere The most convenient place we could finde to sitt in was the Quire of the Churche Where […]

Books

Angela: Jamestown and the First Africans [2022], by David Givens, Mark Summers, Sean Romo, Mary Anna Hartley, Dr. James Horn “About the latter end of August” […]

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 […]

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