Landscape, Movement and Constraint: Germanna (Virginia) in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Germanna has been the site of archaeology over the last five decades. It is best known as the site of the 1714 Fort Germanna and for Alexander Spotswood’s “Enchanted Castle.” The current Germanna Archaeology Project has been built using an historic landscapes approach to excavations since 2016. The results have connected with stories of various Virginia Indigenous Peoples, the colonizing English, German speaking migrants, and enslaved Africans. Germanna’s landscape held myriad meanings for the various people who inhabited it. Exploration of Germanna’s landscape, today, continues to hold connection with a variety of contemporary stakeholders and descendant groups.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2025

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