The whole story relating the settlers themselves to evidence they left
in the soil of Jamestown remains to be told.
PART TWO
Daily Life at Jamestown 300 Years Ago As Revealed by Recovered Objects
By J. PAUL HUDSON
Museum Curator, Colonial National Historical Park
"Hitherto they [historians] have depended too much upon manuscript
evidences... Perhaps the day is not distant when the social historian,
whether he is writing about the New England Puritans, or the
Pennsylvania Germans, or the rice planters of Southern Carolina, will
look underground, as well as in the archives, for his evidence."--DR.
T.J. WERTENBAKER
Archeological explorations at Jamestown, Va.--site of the first
successful English colony in the New World--have brought to light
thousands of colonial period artifacts which were used by the Virginia
settlers from 1607 until 1699.
A study of these ancient objects, which were buried under the soil at
Jamestown for many decades, reveal in many ways how the English
colonists lived on a small wilderness island over 300 years ago.
Artifacts unearthed include pottery and glassware, clay pipes, building
materials and handwrought hardware, tools and farm implements, weapons,
kitchen utensils and fireplace accessories, furniture hardware, lighting
devices, eating and drinking vessels, tableware, costume accessories and
footwear, medical equipment, horse gear, coins and weights, and many
items relating to household and town industries, transportation, trade,
and fishing.
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