Montpelier Archaeology:
Expeditioner Jan has stayed an extra week to work with our #digmontpelier here excavating through an artifact rich layer! Interested in learning about archaeology and having the same week long experience with our archaeology staff? Visit http://ift.tt/1Jr
Montpelier Archaeology:
Expeditioner Jan has stayed an extra week to work with our #digmontpelier here excavating through an artifact rich layer!
Montpelier Archaeology:
Shooting in new units today in preparation for our 1st #digmontpelier field school! For four weeks, 19 students will be working with our staff to help us excavate the South Yard smokehouses, all while learning about archaeological field methods, stratigra
Montpelier Archaeology:
Shooting in new units today in preparation for our 1st #digmontpelier field school!
Montpelier Archaeology:
We're hard at work building our #digmontpelier public viewing deck for the site!!
Montpelier Archaeology:
We're hard at work building our #digmontpelier public viewing deck for the site!!
Montpelier Archaeology:
This #pintle and #hinge fragment are wonderfully intact examples of door #hardware at #montpelier. #findoftheday #digmontpelier
Montpelier Archaeology:
We have a dual #findoftheday and #FeatureFriday while mitigating for the new #digmontpelier observation deck
Montpelier Archaeology:
Expedition member Jan stayed on to volunteer with the #digmontpelier team and was rewarded with another #findoftheday - a bone handle!
Montpelier Archaeology:
An end-of-day #findoftheday by expedition member Janet! She found this #brass #escutcheon plate in the #smokehouse area. #digmontpelier
Montpelier Archaeology:
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Montpelier Archaeology:
Today we have an artifact to accompany our #findoftheday from a few days ago - a #wine bottle base! The #digmontpelier team has found several of these
Montpelier Archaeology:
Expedition member Jan from Arizona discovered today's #findoftheday, a 5-holed bone #button. This is one of many buttons the #digmontpelier team has found during our #smokehouse #excavation. #archaeology #montpelier #artifact #loveva #digva
Montpelier Archaeology:
Iron cut nails.
Montpelier Archaeology:
Iron hook and chain.
Montpelier Archaeology:
This week's expedition is helping us remove part of the 1840's path that cuts through our site! #digmontpelier The path was installed after the sale of @jmmontpelier by Dolley and the destruction of the south yard outbuildings. We believe the stone and br
Montpelier Archaeology:
Archaeologists value features just as much as artifacts, so in honor of #FeatureFriday we are showing off our 1840s stone and brick #pathway that probably reuses some of the brick and stone from the buildings in the #SouthYard at #Montpelier. Here it span
Montpelier Archaeology:
Matt Greer is working on a post hole that was discovered last week, likely part of a fence! #digmontpelier post holes are a regular occurrence in archaeology. In some cases they are part of a structure, in others they were for fences. There are two portio
Montpelier Archaeology:
We know that lots of wine was consumed here at #montpelier from the wine bottle glass we find, but it's always great to find wine stems like this, today's #findoftheday! #digmontpelier #digva #loveva
Montpelier Archaeology:
Archaeologists leave objects in their unit walls to preserve the objects' context, so it is a satisfying feeling when these artifacts, like today's #findoftheday can be extracted. Our reward? A serving spoon! #digmontpelier #digva #loveva #archaeology #ar
Montpelier Archaeology:
#digmontpelier staff member Erica earns today's #findoftheday with a chamfered aqua glass bottle base with a #pontil mark. Any guesses what kind of bottle this is? Tag your guess in the comments below! #archaeology #loveva #artifact #history #montpelier
Montpelier Archaeology:
Intern DJ and his expedition members have had a treasure trove of artifacts in their unit. Can you name all of these #findoftheday #artifacts? #digmontpelier #digva #loveva
Montpelier Archaeology:
Tonight, members of the staff, expedition, and log cabin expedition are staying in the log cabin w @slavedwellingproject! Joe McGill has spent the past few years raising awareness about preserving slave dwellings across the US by sleeping in them with mem
Montpelier Archaeology:
Two holes, one filled w stone on the left, one w brick, sit 10 ft apart, in a layer of clay. While archaeologists are always hesitant of making a line out of two objects, the distance of 10 ft and its perpendicular orientation to the South Yard buildings
Montpelier Archaeology:
Sherry Williams just pulled out a Chinese export nanking porcelain! Great piece with a lovely decoration, probably dating to the late 18th century. Considering its proximity to the South Kitchen, which was constructed in the 18th century. #digmontpelier #
Montpelier Archaeology:
A lot of great objects came out of the unit in the #smokehouse where expeditioners Leontyne and Lillie were digging with #digmontpelier. This copper alloy #spoon is just one of our #findoftheday artifacts. Great teamwork! #loveva #montpelier #history #arc
Montpelier Archaeology:
Sherry Williams is motoring through the "destruction layer", which is full of early 19thc artifacts. #digmontpelier
Montpelier Archaeology:
We had some great finds today, including this #findoftheday, a pulley piece. Our expedition member Ezell has had lots of great finds like this today! #digmontpelier #loveva #archaeology #artifact #historic #history #pubarch
Montpelier Archaeology:
Ezell shows off his finds, all found in a manner of seconds from each other! #digmontpelier
Montpelier Archaeology:
#Repost of @fuzzzness of her accomodations @jmmontpelier's Arlington House! ・・・For the next week, I will be sharing a room with three other women, all participants in an archaeological dig at James Madison's #Montpelier to excavate the South Lawn, where s
