May 23, 2012

Archaeological Dig, Jamestown Island, Virginia

 

The Jamestown Island archaeological dig is back in full swing. They dig a portion of the interior of the fort, very carefully removing artifacts, fill in the hole, and move to a new spot. As the second photo shows, the dirt is painstakingly scraped away to unearth artifacts.

6 comments:

  1. Fantastic. Always find this fascinating, I hope their finds will be on show!

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  2. AnonymousMay 23, 2012

    Needs a lot of patience...

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  3. i would love to be part of a dig! i should have become an archaeologist! we'll be heading to jamestown next week for my boys' field trip!

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  4. They dig out a fort ? wow, that's hard work.

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  5. it must take great patience to do this!

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  6. I'm WAY too A.D.D. to do that kind of work...

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