As Jim mentioned yesterday our excavation into the cellar fill of the Swann House has produced numerous 20th century artifacts. This does not mean that all of these more recent artifacts are particularly dull, and one in particular roused our interest...

Sorry...no pictures today. Pete, Anne, and Kelley started excavating a 5 ft by 5 ft unit into the northeast corner of the Swann House cellar hole. The upper horizon, as expected, produced a large number of 20th-century artifacts, confirming our...

We finished mapping the Swann House foundation today and will excavate one unit in the northeast corner tomorrow. The north side of the chimney (pictured left) turned out to be a little odd. Not Anne...she's normal enough, but the foundation and the...

It is a rainy Sunday and All Saints Day, so I thought I would post a few more pictures from our final day of monument recovery at St. Nicholas Cemetery. Near the existing early 20th-century church, the US Navy had mapped several markers in 1943. Years...

Although there are a few monuments to repair and re-erect, and some others that have to be re-plumbed, for all intents and purposes we finished the St. Nicholas Cemetery restoration fieldwork on Friday. And no lives or limbs were lost in the...