Dig Updates

January 2012

 This winter the Jamestown Rediscovery team is focusing on writing reports, research, conservation, archiving photos and field notes, updating websites, and digital map work. Senior […]

December 2011

In the air abrasion room, conservator Dan Gamble was cleaning a goffering iron—a hollow cylindrical iron tool that was heated and used with starch to iron […]

November 2011

October 2011

Archaeologists are four feet deep in a 17th-century well inside the southwest corner of James Fort’s 1608 church. In spite of its location, the well dates […]

September 2011

Excavations have started on a 17th-century well in the southwest corner of James Fort’s 1608 church. Though the well sits inside the footprint of the church’s […]

August 2011

Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists continue to scrape away at the postholes of James Fort’s 1608 church, excavating them down to the subsoil to determine just how deep […]

July 2011

The entire archaeological footprint of James Fort’s first substantial church has been found. The church, built in 1608 and which is likely the wedding site of […]

June 2011

The archaeological field school is in full swing and the Jamestown Rediscovery staff is using the extra manpower to conduct excavations in three separate areas of […]

May 2011

Excavations are steadily progressing to the north and west in an effort to uncover the rest of the archaeological remains of James Fort’s 1608 church, the […]

April 2011

The 2011 dig season has started and excavations are currently focused on two early-fort-period structures located within the triangular footprint of James Fort. The Jamestown Rediscovery […]

March 2011

As the archaeological field crew prepares to head back out to the fort site to continue their excavations of the 1608 church, the conservation and curatorial […]

February 2011

The Jamestown Rediscovery curatorial team continues to sort through the piles and piles of animal bones found in a 1609 well, probably the fort’s first. The […]