The Abraham Preble Garrison Phase III Data Recovery

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Begun as a family homestead in 1642, the Abraham Preble Site in York, Maine, was later fortified to serve as a militia garrison and place-of-refuge during King William's War (1688-1697), a destructive frontier conflict that pitted the English Colonists against the Native Wabanki and their French allies. Intensive archaeological excavations in 2021 and 2022 revealed at least nine buildings stood in and adjacent to successive palisade lines, marking the site's evolution. Confined to an area of 800 square meters, many of the structures are contemporary with the most intesive period of occupation, when the complex houses not just the Preble family, but the militia and nearly 100 refuges from nearby farmsteads. This paper summarized the results of the Phase III excavations; while providing historical context and a focus on the physical layout of the site and the architectural evidence for the buildings that stood within the complex.

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• SHA 2023 General Sessions   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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