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.
Senior Conservator Micheal Lavin uses a pneumatic scribe to remove concretions from an Irish pennyThe Jamestown Rediscovery conservation and curatorial staff have their hands full with the thousands of artifacts excavated from the fort's first well in 2009. Senior Conservator Michael Lavin is removing concretions from a collection of about 60 coins found in the well. The majority of these are heavily oxidized and Michael will need to remove quite a bit of corrosion before being able to identify them. Conservator Dan Gamble is working on a dagger blade also found in the well. Due to the fragile nature of the blade, Dan is using air abrasion to remove the rust. The process is tedious but necessary when dealing with compromised metals. more...
A photo of the pendant, perhaps representing Powhatan, manipulated to show what it looked like new.In the Spring of 2008, a copper pendant was found in a cellar just inside the eastern palisade wall of James Fort. The pendant bears the profile of a man's face. Bly Straube, Senior Curator of the Jamestown Rediscovery archaeological project, takes the reader through the process of trying to identify and give context to this unusual artifact. more...
his copper pendant was found sealed beneath the oldest of several working surfaces in the buried cellar of James Fort's 1607 experimental ironworking building. Bly Straube, Senior Curator at Historic Jamestowne suggests the object may depict a Virginia Indian in such detail that it could have been used in the fort as an identification badge. 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.
his copper pendant was found sealed beneath the oldest of several working surfaces in the buried cellar of James Fort's 1607 experimental ironworking building. Bly Straube, Senior Curator at Historic Jamestowne suggests the object may depict a Virginia Indian in such detail that it could have been used in the fort as an identification badge. 
