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James Goodwin excavates a feature near
the riverfront. |
Dave Brown and James Goodwin display
some of the Late Woodland ceramics found in the riverfront feature. |
The riverfront excavation in progress. |
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A late woodland feature (upper left)
and historic posthole (lower right) were found just outside
of last years excavations (see plastic on right). |
You can see sections of the two ditches
crossing this excavation trench. |
The riverfront excavation was less than
fifty feet from the York River. |
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These circular depressions mark the locations
of vertically-set logs that formed a fence. |
Not every visitor to the site was human. |
Whlie the pasture appears empty on its
surface, beneath the grass is hundreds of years of history. |
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This profile shows the gradual filling
of the ditches by numerous layers of silt. |
This circular pit was filled sometime
at the end of the 18th century by the Taliaferro family. |
Thane Harpole, Beth Clites, and Nick
Anderson clean the test units while in the shadow of a backhoe. |