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As part of a Cooperative Agreement with the United States Army Environmental Command, The Louis Berger Group, Inc. was tasked to complete the archaeological excavations at Site 44CE0110. The site is the probable core of Woodford Plantation (Windsor Plantation) with occupation from the 1700s to the mid-1900s. The location of a non-extant house is defined by a cellar depression. The brickwork suggests a construction date of the 1800s. Brick fragments and artifacts indicative of the occupation...
Archaeological Investigations, Windsor Plantation (Site 44CE0110), Fort A.P. Hill (AP2012.002)
As part of a Cooperative Agreement with the United States Army Environmental Command, The Louis Berger Group, Inc. was tasked to complete the archaeological excavations at Site 44CE0110. The site is the probable core of Woodford Plantation (Windsor Plantation) with occupation from the 1700s to the mid-1900s. The location of a non-extant house is defined by a cellar depression. The brickwork suggests a construction date of the 1800s. Brick fragments and artifacts indicative of the occupation...
The Archaeology of Minute Man National Historical Park
Documents associated with archaeological field work at Minute Man National Historical Park.
The Archeology and Interpretation of Native Americans at Valley Forge National Historical Park (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Valley Forge National Historical Park in Pennsylvania commemorates the 1777-1778 winter encampment of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. The enabling legislation directs the National Park Service to preserve the natural and cultural resources of, and educate the public...
Artifact Inventory, Windsor Plantation (Site 44CE0110), Fort A.P. Hill (2012)
Artifact inventory for Excavation photographs from the archaeological investigations conducted at Windsor Plantation (Site 44CE0110), Fort A.P. Hill. Exact date for the artifact inventory is not known.
Artifact Photograph Layout, Windsor Plantation (Site 44CE0110), Fort A.P. Hill (2012)
This document contains labelled versions of the artifact photographs from the archaeological investigations conducted at Windsor Plantation (Site 44CE0110), Fort A.P. Hill.
Artifact Photographs, Windsor Plantation, Fort A. P. Hill (2009)
Photographs of artifacts from the archaeological investigations conducted at Windsor Plantation (Site 44CE0110), Fort A.P. Hill.
The Barber Wheatfield Saratoga National Historical Park: Landscape of War and Discovery (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In May and June of 2019, Saratoga National Historical Park (SARA) and the Northeast Region Archaeology Program (NRAP) partnered with several groups including American Veterans Archaeological Recovery (AVAR), American Battlefield Trust (ABT), Advanced Metal Detecting for the...
Captain Ewald's Odyssey: Some Context for the 1777-78 Philadelphia Campaign (2016)
This paper interprets the various actions and violent encounters between the American Revolutionary Army and the British Crown forces in the Philadelphia Campaign of 1777-78. Probably one of the most significant narratives imbedded in these events is the role of the Hessian mercenaries fighting for the Royalist cause. Fortunately, the diary that Captain Johann von Ewald wrote has survived to brilliantly annotate this critical moment in the history of the war. He was an unusually candid and keen...
Excavation Photographs (Black & White), Windsor Plantation, Fort A. P. Hill (1 of 2) (2009)
Excavation photographs from the archaeological investigations conducted at Windsor Plantation (Site 44CE0110), Fort A.P. Hill. This resources contains roll 1 of the black and white excavation photographs.
Excavation Photographs (Black & White), Windsor Plantation, Fort A. P. Hill (2 of 2) (2009)
Excavation photographs from the archaeological investigations conducted at Windsor Plantation (Site 44CE0110), Fort A.P. Hill. This resources contains roll 2 of the black and white excavation photographs.
Excavation Photographs (Color), Windsor Plantation, Fort A. P. Hill (1 of 3) (2009)
Excavation photographs from the archaeological investigations conducted at Windsor Plantation (Site 44CE0110), Fort A.P. Hill. This resources contains the first part of the color photographs.
Excavation Photographs (Color), Windsor Plantation, Fort A. P. Hill (2 of 3) (2009)
Excavation photographs from the archaeological investigations conducted at Windsor Plantation (Site 44CE0110), Fort A.P. Hill. This resources contains the second part of the color photographs.
Excavation Photographs (Color), Windsor Plantation, Fort A. P. Hill (3 of 3) (2009)
Excavation photographs from the archaeological investigations conducted at Windsor Plantation (Site 44CE0110), Fort A.P. Hill. This resources contains the third part of the color photographs.
George Toasts George? (It’s Complicated): 'G.R.' Mugs and the Changing Identity of the Washington Family from Loyal Brits to Revolutionaries (2018)
The presence of ‘G.R.’ drinking vessels on mid-eighteenth century archaeological sites in Virginia is typically nothing to write home about… unless the sites in question are associated with individuals who were to become significant figures in the American Revolution. ‘G.R.’ vessels have been recovered from George Washington’s boyhood home at Ferry Farm, and Kenmore, his sister Betty’s home with her husband Fielding Lewis, a financier of the Revolution. Like most colonists, they viewed...
Lab Records, Windsor Plantation (Site 44CE0110), Fort A.P. Hill (2012)
This document includes the provenience data as well as lab record from the archaeological investigations conducted at Windsor Plantation (Site 44CE0110), Fort A.P. Hill.
"Madly and blindly in the face of furious fire" Archaeological Survey of the Barber Wheatfield, Saratoga National Historical Park (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The incredible events that occurred at Barber Wheatfield on October 7th, 1777 during the second Battle of Saratoga and the landscape of rolling hills and small farms make it a pivotal location in understanding the day's outcomes. This paper discusses the results of an archaeological...
Minute Man National Historic Park: Archaeological Overview and Evaluation (1980)
The present study of Minute Man National Historical Park contains two major sections. First is a summary and analysis of previous archeological work. This includes a description of each site and its artifactual material as well as a general synthesis of all the past work. Emphasis is placed on research objectives and methods, particularly the ways in which documentary data have been utilized. Since none of the results of archeological research has been published, the present study will make...
Parker's Revenge - a Running Battle: First Day of the Revolutionary War, Minute Man National Historical Park (2016)
April 19, 1775, at the border of Lexington and Lincoln in Massachusetts, Captain John Parker and the Lexington Militia met the British Regular troops as they retreated to Boston following the exchange of fire that marked the start of the Revolutionary War at Concord’s North Bridge. The Parker’s Revenge Project seeks to determine the location of the Parker’s Revenge battle through an innovative approach to funding, research, and public engagement. Funded by the Friends of the Minute Man...
Photo Log, Windsor Plantation (Site 44CE0110), Fort A.P. Hill (2009)
Photo Log for the archaeological investigations conducted at Windsor Plantation (Site 44CE0110), Fort A.P. Hill.
PROTEIN (BLOOD) RESIDUE ANALYSIS OF LEAD BULLETS FROM CAMP LETTERMAN, GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA (2008)
Protein (blood) residue analysis was conducted on five lead musket shot projectiles (bullets) from Camp Letterman, a Union field hospital associated with the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to determine if human proteins were present on these artifacts.
PROTEIN RESIDUE ANALYSIS OF METAL WEAPONRY FROM SITE 28ME363 POSSIBLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BATTLE OF PRINCETON, MERCER COUNTY, NEW JERSEY (2016)
The Princeton Battlefield, dating from the Revolutionary War, saw engagement between British and American forces. The battle erupted with a fury, but the location of the initial fighting is not well defined. Munitions, both lead and iron, recovered from this battlefield were submitted for protein residue analysis in an effort to assist in definition of the intensity of the battle.
Report of a Specialized Intensive (Locational) Survey, Lexington Battle Road, Hanscom Air Force Base, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (2007)
On behalf of Hanscom Air Force Base, the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence requested that a specialized archeological survey, consisting of a metal-detector survey followed by field excavation, be conducted in the areas with potential for battlefield debris. The survey would focus on resources associated with the Battle of April 19, 1775. The Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence originally contracted TN & Associates, which in turn subcontracted Timelines, Inc. (now John...
The River Overlook Fortifications on Bemus Heights at Saratoga NHP (2016)
The fortification of Bemus Heights at Saratoga by the Americans during the Revolutionary War was engineered by Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish military engineer who had taken up the American cause at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Kosciusko designed the fortifications on Bemus Heights at the River Overlook to oppose the British plan to advance to Albany along the River Road. In 2009, a geophysical study was conducted on one of the River Fortification elements in Kosciusko’s defense...
Valcour Bay Research Project: 1999-2004 Results from the Archaeological Investigation of a Revolutionary War Battlefield in Lake Champlain, Clinton County, New York (2007)
This report presents the results from the 1999 through 2004 field seasons of the Valcour Bay Research Project (VBRP), a Phase I underwater archaeological investigation of the submerged battlefield at Valcour Bay, in Lake Champlain. Valcour Bay is located in Clinton County, New York, between the town of Peru and Valcour Island within Lake Champlain. On October 11, 1776, General Benedict Arnold engaged the British Navy in perhaps the most important naval contest of the American Revolution. After...