istoric Jamestowne is the site of the first permanent English settlement in America. The site is jointly administered by APVA Preservation Virginia and the National Park Service.
The probable well featureThe 2009 field school is in session and the students and their Jamestown Rediscovery instructors are focused on an area inside the eastern palisade wall and on a probable well near the center of the fort. The group of students just inside the eastern palisade wall are in search of fort-period structures. More specifically they are looking for postholes about ten feet from the wall that may have belonged to post-in-ground buildings. Other fort-period (ca. 1607-1624) structures parallel to the palisade walls were found at this distance. Another group of archaeologists are excavating the fill of what is almost certainly a well, probably the fort's first. more...
Digitally-altered photo highlights some of the slate's text and images
Archaeologists at Historic Jamestowne have discovered a remarkable piece of slate covered with faint sketches, words and numbers thrown in what appears to be an original Jamestown well abandoned and filled by 1611. Sketches of New World birds, flowers, a tree, and caricatures of men are scratched on the slate along with letters and numbers. Members of the Jamestown Rediscovery team speculate that the artwork and writing probably began in England and was further embellished over time as it was brought from England to Jamestown during the early years of colonization. more...
istoric Jamestowne is the site of the first permanent English settlement in America. The site is jointly administered by APVA Preservation Virginia and the National Park Service.
brass lion played a role in the Jamestown economy. Made in Nuremberg, Germany it was used as a counterweight to a coin scale. 
