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November 13, 2014 By Fairfield Foundation Leave a Comment

New Challenges and New Discoveries at New Quarter Park

Every research excavation has that moment when you must decide whether to keep digging, or focus your energies on the inside work- whether it’s the artifact washing, cataloging, and report writing that accompanies any archaeology project, or potentially pulling together exhibits, lectures, and other outreach to the public.  We say “research excavation” because often archaeologists are salvaging […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Preservation Tagged With: archaeology, Archeological Society of Virginia, Artifacts, ASV, education, Engagement, excavation, fairfield foundation, New Quarter Park, Preservation, public archaeology, Research, Tidewater Virginia Historical Society, Volunteers

April 5, 2013 By Fairfield Foundation Leave a Comment

Middle Peninsula State Park Survey, Round Three!

For the third year in a row, the Fairfield Foundation and the Middle Peninsula Chapter of the Archeological Society of Virginia (ASV), led a great group of dedicated volunteers on a shovel test pit survey across the grounds of the future Middle Peninsula State Park, near Rosewell in Gloucester County. A damp and gray Tuesday […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education Tagged With: archaeology, Archeological Society of Virginia, ASV, survey, Virginia State Parks

March 23, 2012 By Fairfield Foundation 5 Comments

Community Outreach: the Archeological Society of Virginia and its Middle Peninsula Chapter

We’ve all heard the expression “You can’t take a step in Virginia without walking on an historic site!” We live in an amazingly historic area with wonderful resources, from the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, to the restored and reconstructed town of Williamsburg, the grand plantations along Route 5, and the battlegrounds at Yorktown […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Events Tagged With: archaeology, Archeological Society of Virginia, ASV, Middle Peninsula Chapter ASV, sites

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  • The Thruston Library: What One Family’s Books Tell Us About Their Past January 10, 2021
  • 17th-century Settlement on the York River: Fairfield Foundation Receives Grant to Research Early Archaeological Sites at Timberneck and Shelly December 29, 2020
  • Gloucester’s Public School Past: Archaeology and Artifact Update! December 9, 2020

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