JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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Montpelier's archaeology lab is open to the public Mon- Fri. throughout September.
Guests can talk with our expert , see real found at Montpelier, and learn how instrumental is to everything we know about Montpelier.

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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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Ever want to participate in a real dig?
Join Montpelier's Archaeology Dept. Oct.15-20 for our program!

You will work side-by-side with professional on actual research sites at Montpelier.
Experience the excitement of uncovering & features that have been buried for 2+ centuries! This is a perfect program for to experience together.
Learn more, montpelier.org/visit/excavate-

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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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This morning, while digging a pod of shovel test pits at the Overseers House on the Home Farm, one of our field interns Alyssa came upon this great example of a coat button with the shank still intact!

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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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Greenstone projectile point identified from the Overseer's House site.
A small number of have been recovered this season, (including those crafted of quartz, flint, and greenstone) revealing how much of Montpelier's was integral to life in the and nations before .

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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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Ever want to participate in a real dig?
Join our incredible Archaeology Dept. this Oct. for our pgrm!

While digging through Madison-era deposits, you will experience the excitement of uncovering & features that have been buried for 2+ centuries!
This is a perfect program for to experience together.

Learn more, montpelier.org/visit/excavate-


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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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What types of can be found through ?
Here is a of artifacts found during at Montpelier.
This helps locate & refine sites for , date sites & understand how ppl used them in the past.
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1. Two large cent coins c. 1793-1798
2. A sherd of combed Staffordshire Slipware
3. A fancy brass alloy buckle
4. The bowl of a lead spoon
5. Hand wrought nail, rose head, pointed tip
6. Brass alloy watch key with anchor decoration

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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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This 18th-century chess set was added to the decorative art collection after Montpelier's team uncovered tiny fragments of similar pawns in the South Yard.

They closely match pawns from types of sets sold during ca. 1780-1810, including this ‘Washington Pattern” set (named because George Washington owned one!)

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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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has helped us learn much of what we know about the people who lived at .

But how do know where to ?
Read what methods archaeologists use to identify where to dig & learn how you can uncover at Montpelier with the Archaeology Department!
➡️digitaldoorway.montpelier.org/

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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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Next week is the highly anticipate historic cooking prgrm with nationally-renowned culinary expert, Jerome Bias!
🍽️
Tune into our Stories & socials April 12-15 & plan to visit Montpelier for a live cooking demonstration on April 15!
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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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In the late summer '19, the Montpelier Dept began at a 19th-c Overseer's House site within James Madison's Montpelier.
Learn more about the Overseers site, here buff.ly/439YLDo
This project is funded by a National Endowment for Humanities Collaborative Research grant.

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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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Join us for the April Lunch & Learn with Dr. Terry Brock!
Terry is the Dir. of CHARG & works at Wake Forest U. as the Mgr of Archaeology & Research at the Wake Forest Historical Museum & is a Part Time Asst.Teaching Prof. w
The Cultural Heritage & Preservation Prgm.
Join us for “We have enriched it with our blood and tears” Debating Citizenship and Colonization, and Archaeology at Montpelier"
buff.ly/3ztqwsP

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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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⭐ WE’RE HIRING!⭐
Join this award-winning team of dedicated at Montpelier.
You will be a part of a mission & value driven , carrying out all elements of the archaeological process to improve the understanding of the cultural resources of Montpelier- the home & .
Learn more➡️buff.ly/3lXUSgv

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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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in 1797, James Madison wrote to his father, “I hope Moses has finished my Waggon: if not pray instruct him to do so.”
Learn more about Moses & his work as a blacksmith at Montpelier’s Naming Project,
buff.ly/3aOVvTy

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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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An enslaved worker at Montpelier left his or her fingerprints on this brick.
The small size of fingerprints typically found on bricks suggests that women or children were among the enslaved brickmakers.
A number on the brick shows that it was the end of a day’s run.
📸 by staff member, Zeb Gray

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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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Save the date! 🗓️
The next Archaeology Lunch & Learn will be on Feb. 15 at noon.

This month, join University of Maryland Ph. D. candidate and former Montpelier employee Elizabeth McCague, to discuss "The Search for Historic Horses in the Archaeological Record."

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Callum Reilly · @reallycal
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New to Mastodon so a little - I’m a sometime archaeologist, previously working in for the built environment & sectors.

Now post-PhD (landscapes of social reform, University of York) & working in an role in in southwest England but still researching/writing on whenever I can.

, nerd, & dabbler in photography & music (mainly guitar). Prone to map geekery.

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