Martin's HundredThis first-hand account examines an important excavation in American historical archaeology--the discovery of a lost plantation, providing extensive evidence of English colonial life in early seventeenth-century Virginia. |
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... Interpretation would have been easier had our documentary sources so much as hinted at there being a fort or even a palisaded house somewhere in the Hundred . No such items were listed in its contribution to the 1625 census , and so one ...
... Interpretation would have been easier had our documentary sources so much as hinted at there being a fort or even a palisaded house somewhere in the Hundred . No such items were listed in its contribution to the 1625 census , and so one ...
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... interpreted it as a block to support and carry the downward thrust of a large post reinforcing the floor of the flanker . If this interpretation was correct , it could have had but one purpose to help support the weight of a cannon ...
... interpreted it as a block to support and carry the downward thrust of a large post reinforcing the floor of the flanker . If this interpretation was correct , it could have had but one purpose to help support the weight of a cannon ...
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... interpreted , 63 , 67-9 ; links to Site C , 169-70 , 194 ; pipe dating , 122 Site B , 17 , 108 , 111-29 , 135 , 139–40 ... interpretation of , 48 sturgeon , 209 sumptuary laws , 60 , 63 survey ( 1970–71 ) : 12–19 , 40 , 111 , 261 , 274 ...
... interpreted , 63 , 67-9 ; links to Site C , 169-70 , 194 ; pipe dating , 122 Site B , 17 , 108 , 111-29 , 135 , 139–40 ... interpretation of , 48 sturgeon , 209 sumptuary laws , 60 , 63 survey ( 1970–71 ) : 12–19 , 40 , 111 , 261 , 274 ...
Contents
THE JAMESTOWN PERSPECTIVE | 22 |
PUTTING THE GOVERNOR IN HIS PLACE | 62 |
PAINTERS AND POTTERS | 84 |
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