400-Year-Old Jamestown Tombstone Analyzed

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400-Year-Old Jamestown Tombstone Analyzed
Archaeology Magazine ^ | September 20, 2024 | editors / unattributed

Posted on 09/28/2024 4:00:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

According to a Gizmodo report, paleontologist Marcus Key of Dickinson College has analyzed the black limestone tombstone found in the 1617 church at Jamestown. The stone features an outline of a person wearing armor, and probably a shield and sword, suggesting that the tombstone was carved for a knight. The stone is therefore thought to have belonged to Sir Thomas West, who died in 1618 while sailing to Jamestown, or Sir George Yeardley, the slave-owning colonial governor. Key determined that microfossils of single-celled organisms called foraminiferans were embedded in the limestone. "These species did not co-occur anywhere in North America," he explained, but could have come from parts of England, Ireland, or Belgium. "Historical evidence of similar colonial tombstones around the Chesapeake Bay suggests the source was Belgium," Key concluded. He thinks the stone had been shipped from Belgium to London, where it was carved and inlayed with brass as was fashionable, and then shipped to Jamestown.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; jamestown; sirthomaswest

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1 posted on 09/28/2024 4:00:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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The site of the seventeenth-century home of John Doane, one of the first English families to settle in what is now the town of Eastham, Massachusetts, has been excavated by John Chenoweth of the University of Michigan-Dearborn and his colleagues, according to a report in The Provincetown Independent. Doane died in 1686 at the age of 94, after serving as the town's deacon, constable, surveyor of highways, deputy to the colony court, and selectman. After his death, his daughter Abigail, who had been living with him, married and moved to Connecticut, likely taking the most valuable goods in the home with her. Thousands of chips from expensive imported bricks uncovered at the site suggest that the house had a hearth, cellar, chimney, and footings made of brick. Fragments of flat glass and X-shaped lead window framing indicate that the house had glass windows. "Glass is a real status symbol in seventeenth-century New England," Chenoweth said, since it was so fragile and had to be transported from England. Yet poor-quality pieces of molten glass and several pieces of iron slag could reflect an attempt to repair or produce goods locally, he added. Few pieces of bottle glass and pipestems were unearthed, perhaps reflecting little consumption of alcohol or tobacco by Doane, who was remembered as "a man of wisdom, integrity, and deep piety," according to a history of the region compiled in the mid-nineteenth century.17th-Century Home Site Excavated in Massachusetts | Archaeology Magazine | September 20, 2024

2 posted on 09/28/2024 4:03:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

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3 posted on 09/28/2024 4:03:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

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