Salve Regina University: Whitehall, home of Bishop George Berkeley, built by 1729
Salve Regina University: Establishing the grid for the 2010 field season
Salve Regina University: Dr. John Steinberg and Katy Caitlin prepare the ground-penetrating radar unit to survey the Whitehall backlot
Salve Regina University: Dr. John Steinberg acquiring radar data at Whitehall
Salve Regina University: Looking down into the well at Whitehall
Salve Regina University: Katy Caitlin trying to match an historic image of the house with its present appearance
Salve Regina University: Dr. John Steinberg explaining the operation of the ground-penetrating radar to students in the 2010 field school
Salve Regina University: Radar investigations were complemented by an electrical resisitivity survey of the Whitehall backlot
Salve Regina University: The Whitehall backlot, ready for archaeological survey in June 2010
Salve Regina University: Field school students excavating a trash deposit from the 1830s at Whitehall
Salve Regina University: Students screening soil for artifacts at Whitehall, June 2010
Salve Regina University: Archaeological survey of the backlot revealed numerous eighteenth- and nineteenth-century archaeological features
Salve Regina University: Mid-eighteenth-century artifacts dating from Whitehall’s use as a teahouse, 1750-1770
Salve Regina University: A pig jaw deposited in the 1850s awaits excavation
Salve Regina University: Final recording and drawing of the units excavated in 2010
Salve Regina University: Stephanie Kraut (’12), project co-director Dr. David Landon of UMass-Boston, and Claire Kilcommons (’13) examine wine bottle necks recovered from Whitehall
Salve Regina University: Final photographs in progress, June 2010
Salve Regina University: The foundation of one of many buildings identified during the 2010 field season
Salve Regina University: The back field, which might contain the remains of Samuel Hubbard’s “Maydford”, a house built in the 1670s
Salve Regina University: Filling the excavation units at the end of the 2010 season. We’re already thinking about 2011