116 results found for: 1617 Church

September 2017

In the early 20th century, as construction crews built the seawall around the western tip of Jamestown Island, they encountered a bronze bell fragment. They did […]

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May 2017

During May, the Jamestown Rediscovery archaeology team made major progress in the 1906 Memorial Church as we continued to excavate the interior. Since we began in […]

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February 2017

This February, new discoveries in the Memorial Church boosted the Jamestown Rediscovery team’s optimism that more evidence of the third, fourth, and fifth churches on the […]

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November 2016

This November, Jamestown Rediscovery completed uncovering James Fort’s 1608 extension, which was first discovered back in 2003. In 2003, while working at the north bulwark, archaeologists […]

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July 2016

The Jamestown Rediscovery archaeology team bid adieu to the 2016 Field School participants in July. With their help, we learned more about the east palisade wall […]

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2016

In 2016 the Jamestown Rediscovery team season completed excavation of the backfilled cellar at the northeast corner of the fort’s 1608 addition. Work focused on a […]

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Timeline

1602 Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold, Capt. Gabriel Archer, and others voyage to the New England coast. 1603 Capt. Bartholomew Gilbert voyages to Chesapeake Bay; he and four […]

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July 2015

In 23 years of research, the Jamestown Rediscovery team has found the lost James Fort and the lost 1608 church within the fort, and now the […]

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Comprehensive Bibliography

studies relating to the jamestown rediscovery archaeology project Agbe-Davies, Anna. 2004 “Up in Smoke: Pipe Making, Smoking, and Bacon’s Rebellion.” Dissertation in Anthropology presented to University […]

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Ambassador to England

1616-1617 Sir Thomas Dale sailed back to London in the spring of 1616 to get more financial support for the Virginia Company. To boost publicity, he […]

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John White’s House

A Jamestown Warehouse The middle of the 1620s saw James Fort decline in importance as Jamestown came into its own as the capital of the Virginia […]

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History Timeline

1602 Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold, Capt. Gabriel Archer, and others voyage to the New England coast. 1603 Capt. Bartholomew Gilbert voyages to Chesapeake Bay; he and four […]

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