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Recent Archaeological Discoveries at James Monroe’s Ash Lawn-Highland (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin P Ford. Nick J Bon-Harper.

Longstanding questions about the main house at Ash Lawn-Highland prompted a Phase I archaeological study of the plantation’s domestic core and adjacent hilltop in 2014. This work revealed an area of interest just east of and adjacent to the 1870s wing. Phase II testing of this area in 2015 identified a substantial masonry foundation with partial basement. Associated material culture suggests that the structure dates to the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The projected architectural...