Dig Updates 2025

Senior Staff Archaeologist Mary Anna Hartley and Staff Archaeologist Caitlin Delmas screen for artifacts during the excavations in Bacon's Castle cellar.

May 2025

As opening day of the 2025 Jamestown Field School approaches the archaeology team is preparing the various excavation sites that they’ll be working on. One is […]

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June 9, 2025
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A drone shot of the first 5' x 5' excavation squares in Smithfield

April 2025

The area to the south and west of the Archaearium is abuzz with the scrapes of archaeologists’ shovels and trowels carefully exposing the historic layers beneath […]

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May 12, 2025
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Archaeological Field Technicians Josh Barber and Hannah Barch share their findings with visitors to the excavations southwest of the Archaearium.

March 2025

The archaeology team is welcoming the onset of spring and the opportunity to get back outside. They have resumed their excavations close to the Archaearium, working […]

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April 15, 2025
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A button and partial Turk's head pipe found in the Godspeed Cottage excavations

February 2025

Excavations continue just to the east of the Godspeed Cottage. Three postholes — likely for a fence — were found approximately 5 feet apart from each […]

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March 11, 2025
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A snowy day at Jamestown, January 2025

January 2025

During January most of the archaeologists are focused on indoor tasks including report writing, digital mapping of features, and helping the collections staff with artifact processing. […]

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February 5, 2025
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