Village Life in the Barracks
Author(s): Phil T. Dunning
Year: 2013
Summary
Fort Wellington, in Prescott, Ontario, Canada was a major British post in the 19th century. The large blockhouse-type barracks in it was served by a separate wooden latrine building, built in 1838. Parks Canada archaeologists excavated the interior of the latrine, and discovered that it had been used for dumping refuse for most of its existence. Material culture researchers studied the artifacts, and found that life in the barracks was much different from what it had been thought to be. Working with curatorial staff, they reinterpreted and refurnished the interiors based on the new archaeological evidence.
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Village Life in the Barracks. Phil T. Dunning. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428705)
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Keywords
General
Archaeology
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Curation
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Interpretation
Geographic Keywords
Canada
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North America
Temporal Keywords
1840-1850
Spatial Coverage
min long: -141.003; min lat: 41.684 ; max long: -52.617; max lat: 83.113 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 709