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March 23, 2014 By Fairfield Foundation

The Coolest Artifacts (Part 1): Wine Bottle Seals

We are frequently asked “what is the coolest artifact you’ve ever found?” One of our favorites, and easily in our Top 10, are wine bottle seals. Resting on the shoulders […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Preservation Tagged With: Artifacts, colonial planters, Fairfield Plantation, Gloucester Courthouse, Gloucester Town, wine bottle seals

December 1, 2013 By Fairfield Foundation

The Year of Discovering Mathews County History

  Do you live in an old house?  Is there one down your street?  Do you remember where you found that tobacco pipe stem, that arrow head, or that old […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Preservation Tagged With: archaeology, Architectural Conservation, Artifacts, education, fairfield foundation, Preservation, survey, Volunteer

November 17, 2013 By Fairfield Foundation

Public Archaeology at Burwell’s Quarter in New Quarter Park

Archaeologists from the Fairfield Foundation will venture across the York River to New Quarter Park in York County, to conduct a public archaeology project on an 18th-century site related to […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Events Tagged With: archaeology, Artifacts, education, Engagement, excavation, fairfield foundation, public archaeology, Volunteers

November 3, 2013 By Fairfield Foundation

Go Out And Do: studying history beyond the documents

Just Do It: Reflections from Libby Cook.  In this latest guest blog, Libby reflects on the powerful influences archaeology, material culture, and other fields and trades have on her study […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education Tagged With: anthropology, archaeology, Artifacts, CAPE, Colonial Williamsburg, Engagement, Guest Post, hands-on learning, history, material culture, public archaeology

October 11, 2013 By Fairfield Foundation

Archaeology at the Battle of the Hook!

Raise your hand if you like archaeology. Okay, now raise your hand if it’s been too long since you last visited the beautiful grounds of Gloucester’s historic Warner Hall. Anybody […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Events Tagged With: archaeology, Artifacts, Battle of the Hook, education, excavation, fairfield foundation, gloucester, public archaeology, re-enactment, Revolutionary War, Volunteer, Warner Hall

August 26, 2013 By Fairfield Foundation

Why preserve Fairfield? And how?

The northeast facade of the Fairfield manor house, as it looked shortly before it burned in 1897 (image courtesy of the Virginia Historical Society). Why are you preserving these old […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Events, Preservation Tagged With: Adventures in Preservation, archaeology, Architectural Conservation, Artifacts, education, Preservation, Preservation Workshop, Restoration

January 22, 2013 By Fairfield Foundation

Fairfield archaeology lab: recovering, reviewing, and rethinking our collections

Last April, many of you responded to our pleas for help when a burst water pipe in the Rosewell Visitor Center left our collections and our lab in a state […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Preservation Tagged With: Archaeology Lab, Artifacts, Collections Management, Documents

August 5, 2011 By Fairfield Foundation

Archaeology in Action at the Courthouse Green

Liz Bucklen and Colleen Betti help document a pre-1766 building partially beneath the courthouse green. Archaeologists uncovered three colonial foundations this month during utility work in and around the Gloucester […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Events Tagged With: archaeology, Artifacts, education, Gloucester Courthouse, Volunteers

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