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Dr. William Kelso Discusses the 1608 Church Site at Jamestown, Virginia
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During the field seasons of 2010-2011 the Jamestown Rediscovery team, field school students, and volunteers unearthed the structural postholes from Jamestown's first substa...
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Picking Jamestown's past: Recovering the smallest artifacts
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http://www.facebook.com/historicjamestowne Archaeologist Danny Schmidt demonstrates how we recover very small artifacts from the excavations at James Fort. These finds repr...
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A Day in the Life of the Archaeological Lab at Jamestown, Virginia
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A day in the life of the archaeological lab. Watch as conservators work on a goffering iron (a hollow cylindrical iron tool used to iron the neck ruffs worn in the early 17...
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Below the Water Table in a Mid 17th-Century Well at Jamestown
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Archaeologist Dan Smith works his way through backfill and water at the bottom of a ca. 1650s well in order to retrieve artifact...
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Backfilling the western end of the 1608 church archaeological site
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http://www.facebook.com/historicjamestowne The time lapse video is a composite of 3,500 photos shot with a PentaxK5, SMC 24mm f2.8 lens at f8, 1/400 s and ISO 320. Convers...
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Unique Artifact Unearthed in James Fort
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This shallow glass vessel was found in a post hole from a James Fort period (1607-1624) building. It may have been used in distilling, and is one of a handful of complete g...
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Excavation into a Civil War Bombproof at Fort Pocahontas on Jamestown Island
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Archaeological work reveals the timbers from an underground bombproof structure at Confederate Fort Pocahontas, this is then followed by photographs of other bombproofs fro...
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Hurricane Irene Time Lapse 2011, Tidal Flooding on Jamestown Island in Virginia
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Tidal flooding on the west end of Jamestown Island, Virginia near the archaeological dig. The following video was stiched togther using photographs taken every minute durin...
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Confederate Civil War Fort Excavation: Fort Pocahontas on Jamestown Island in Virginia
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During the summer of 2011 students along with archaeologists from the Jamestown Rediscovery Project began excavations into a section of a Civil War bombproof or sub-terrari...
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Jamestown Virginia's Early Church Revealed
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A full year of archaeology (2010-2011) has lead to the discovery of fourteen major structural postholes that once supported the framework to the first substantial church bu...
About JamestownRediscovery
Historic Jamestowne is the site of the first permanent English settlement in America. The site is jointly administered by Preservation Virginia and the National Park Service. The Jamestown Rediscovery project has been conducting excavations at the site since 1994. Last year in 2007 we commemorated the 400th anniversary of the settling of Jamestown, welcoming dignitaries and the public alike. Visit us at historicjamestown.org and www.preservationvirginia.org for more information.
Historic Jamestowne is the site of the first permanent English settlement in America. The site is jointly administered by Preservation Virginia and the National Park Service. The Jamestown Rediscovery project has been conducting excavations at the...
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