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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... eighteenth century , that of a plantation worked on behalf of an absentee or infant owner . When I was given the task of searching in the vicinity of the mansion for Carter's Grove's " vanished " eighteenth - century build- ings , I ...
... eighteenth century , that of a plantation worked on behalf of an absentee or infant owner . When I was given the task of searching in the vicinity of the mansion for Carter's Grove's " vanished " eighteenth - century build- ings , I ...
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... century pit . We had boxed ourselves in on all four sides of a two - acre rectan- gle : graves on two sides and seventeenth - century remains on both of the others ( Fig . 1-9 ) . Had the evidence pointed to eighteenth - century ...
... century pit . We had boxed ourselves in on all four sides of a two - acre rectan- gle : graves on two sides and seventeenth - century remains on both of the others ( Fig . 1-9 ) . Had the evidence pointed to eighteenth - century ...
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... eighteenth - century Virginia plantation . But even had we found them , argued one faction , it would not be right to reconstruct some of these workplaces unless the mansion itself were restored to its original form — a project that ...
... eighteenth - century Virginia plantation . But even had we found them , argued one faction , it would not be right to reconstruct some of these workplaces unless the mansion itself were restored to its original form — a project that ...
Contents
THE JAMESTOWN PERSPECTIVE | 22 |
PUTTING THE GOVERNOR IN HIS PLACE | 62 |
PAINTERS AND POTTERS | 84 |
Copyright | |
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