Artifact Report, Archaeological Investigation of Fort Norfolk (44NR1) 1977

Summary

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Norfolk District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Alexandria laboratory in September of 2014. The Alexandria VCP laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which is staffed through JMA, an archaeological contract firm located in Alexandria, Virginia.

The procedures employed to re-house the archaeological material from the Archaeological Investigation of Fort Norfolk (44NR1) 1977 investigation are discussed below and follow those procedures utilized by the Alexandria VCP laboratory. In the re-housing process of each investigative effort of the USACE, Norfolk District collection, the same standard procedures and Virginia Department for Historic Resources guidelines were followed. Upon completion of the curation management project, the collection was sent to the Virginia Department for Historic Resources for permanent curation.

The artifact catalog can be found in tDAR at https://core.tdar.org/dataset/436106.

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Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District

Landowner(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District

Sponsor(s): US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District

Repository(s): Virginia Department of Historic Resources

Prepared By(s): Veterans Curation Program

Submitted To(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District

Notes

General Note: The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include the artifact catalog, artifact report, finding aid, scanned asset key and select artifact photographs. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include additional artifact photographs, archives database, artifact database, box labels, correspondence, document folder listing, initial data collection, and notes. For additional information on these materials, refer to the finding aid.

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