Coffin Plates

This week we got the two coffin plates back from the Bermuda Maritime Museum. The BMM stabilized the two copper alloy artefacts and they have been returned to Saint Peter's.

Spring Excavations

Over the last two weeks we have returned to St. George for a brief excavation period to mitigate Ming House, a site we briefly excavated last summer. We extended last summer's to the south in order to get a better idea of the depositional processes at the site. We finished the trench a few days ago and it confirmed the site has been transformed by modern processes. Throughout the soil column historic artefacts from the 18th and 19th centuries were mixed with recent objects. A plastic spork was found next to a piece of green feather-edged creamware. Throughout our dig the unstable nature of the soil column was made manifest by a series of sidewall collapses.