It Takes A Village: Archaeology And Community At Camp Security

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Camp Security was a Revolutionary War prison camp that housed as many as 1,800 British POWs. Efforts to locate residential areas in the complex have been ongoing sporadically since the 1970s, but the exact location of the camp stockade is still unknown. In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of previous methodologies and present findings from the 2020 and 2021 field seasons. Additionally, we reflect on the project in the context of community archaeology and review recent debates surrounding the best utilization of the property for the public.

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• SHA 2022 General Sessions   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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