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 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. |
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Copper pendant |
Despite the intense Virginia heat the Jamestown Rediscovery archaeological team and the students from the 2008 Field School have made steady progress excavating 10' x 10' squares inside James Fort. Archaeologists believe they may have found the fort's original storehouse, described by the colonists as being 120 feet long and 40 feet wide. A line of regularly spaced, deep, and abnormally large postholes running near the center of the fort could be evidence of the structure. Nearby, a series of smaller postholes appears to the be the remnants of a garden fence dating to the 1680s or 1690s, near the end of Jamestown's reign as capital of Virginia. The footprint of a Virginia Indian structure was discovered only feet away from the fence but it had ceased to exist years before the arrival of the colonists. Artifacts have been turning up in droves, including a gold Memento Mori ring, a brass medallion, a Nuremberg lion counterweight, and a copper profile pendant that may portray the likeness of a Powhatan Indian. more... |
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Memento Mori Ring |
This summer season Historic Jamestowne archaeologists have found four remarkably significant decorative objects: an initialed solid gold ring likely once worn by one of Virginia's first assemblymen, a copper pendant that may depict a Powhatan Indian, a
brass ornamental counterweight for a coin scale, and a medallion commemorating the English knighting of a Dutch prince. more...
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his silver seal bears an intricate scene reminding its owner of the short time he had on Earth. A skeleton holds both an hourglass and an arrow, representing the passage of time and the shortness of life. The owner's initials, "LF," are above the hourglass. 
