Old Dog, New Tricks: How Recent Mitigation Efforts Are Building Upon 40+ Years Of Research At The Leonard Calvert House

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Bastions, Buttons, and Burials: Recent Research at Historic St. Mary’s City", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In March of 2023, excavations began on a new capital project aimed at recovering and analyzing archaeological materials located at the Leonard Calvert House Site in preparation for the reconstruction of the large structure in the heart of Historic St. Mary’s City’s Town Center. This project, which will be the capstone of a decades-long archaeological research program, is focused on better understanding not only the colonial aspects of the site, but the thousands of years of indigenous occupation prior and the hundreds of years of people living and laboring on the site after. This paper will provide an update to the ongoing excavation and show how work thus far is expanding upon over 40 years of prior research and is providing new and exciting discoveries which are transforming our understanding of the site. This includes a fundamental reinterpretation of the architectural evolution of the Calvert/Country’s House.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Bastions, Buttons, and Burials: Recent Research at Historic St. Mary’s City   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2025

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