Where else can you work with historic ruins, 3-D models, artifacts, and drones? For the seventh year in a row, Fairfield Foundation is teaming up with Adventures in Preservation to host enthusiastic and curious preservationists who want to learn how to excavate, document, and preserve our past. The week-long experience (August 12 to 18, 2018) […]
The Past in Plastic: 3D Printing Archaeology at Fairfield
It’s been a busy few months since our last update on the Fairfield Model Project, which began last summer with a grant from Harry and Judy Wason. We started documenting the southern wall of the manor ruins at Fairfield in August (read about it here) and have since made amazing progress in our development of […]
Preserving Fairfield from the Ground Up!
Last week we hosted our second Adventures in Preservation (AiP) workshop of 2017 and made great progress at Fairfield Plantation. We opened a new excavation block on the south end of the house foundation, and continued work around a collapsed chimney that we’ve been excavating for the past two summers. The AiP participants (aka “Jammers”) started […]
