Senior Conservator Dan Gamble works on conservation of the tombstone while archaeologists excavate in the background.Courtesy of Jamestown Rediscovery (Preservation Virginia)
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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Senior Conservator Dan Gamble works on conservation of the tombstone while archaeologists excavate in the background.Courtesy of Jamestown Rediscovery (Preservation Virginia)
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
By the picture it looks like this guy is ‘chiseling up some history.’
What does the warranty look like?
That looks like a “ledeger” which lies flat on the grave rather than a tombstone which is upright. Jews are big on ledgers. It’s a tradition which goes back millennia with them.
the slave-owning colonial governor..................
They just had to say that. Totally gratuitous. They can’t help themselves...............
It was found in a church.
“Various terms have been used over the years to refer to the rectangular flat stone slabs used to cover graves (e.g., tablet, table marker, grave cover, grave slab, box tomb, tomb slab, tomb table, memorial slab, slabstone, gravestone, ledger stone, and tombstone). They can be found inside churches, like the knight’s tombstone in this study, or in churchyards or family cemeteries. They were either placed flush with the ground or above ground on a low brick base or mounted on a stone box or table (i.e., chest/altar) or table tomb, respectively (Burgess 1963; Little 1998; Ludwig 1966). The type of tombstone in this study is most often termed a ledger stone.”
Were the rich colonials Jews? Don’t know.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10761-024-00756-4
It looks like there may have been castings set into the rough areas. They’re gone now, and with them, the details that could have identified whose stone it was.
It’s factual.
Wai kewl!
That it may be, but it is totally irrelevant to the story...........
Yes, I’ve seen the slab in person. It originally had cast bronze pieces fit into the stone, one a figure of a knight, and in the top right corner, the coat of arms. All probably stolen and melted down, possibly used to make ammunition during the wars.
I want to hear about the African slave sellers.
But it's totally relevant to, "the agenda." Academia is infested by progressives. The media is infested by progressives. That a media story reporting on academic research would gratuitously include mention of slaveowner status should come as no surprise.
The issue is always the revolution.
And to this topic.
My point is why is he chiseling on anything it’s supposed to be history
Probably not “making ammo”, but recasting brass and bronze into cannons was common.
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