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Martin's Hundred by Ivor Noël Hum
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks SCS F 234 .M378 N63 1982
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Noël Hume, Ivor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carter, Robert, 1663-1732--Homes and haunts--Virginia.
- Noël Hume, Ivo.
- Martin's Hundred Site (Va.
- Carter's Grove (Va.
- Wolstenholme Towne (Va.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 343 pages : illustrations ; 25 c
- Edition:
- 1st ed
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf, 1982
- Summary:
- This first-hand account examines an important excavation in American historical archaeology--the discovery of a lost plantation, providing extensive evidence of English colonial life in early seventeenth-century Virginia
- Contents:
- Looking for the old plantation
- The Jamestown perspective
- Matters of grave concern
- Putting the governor in his place
- Painters and potters
- Pipe dreams
- Hallmarks of failure
- Peeces, pallisadoes, and problems
- Back to B
- Murder in the company compound
- Spadework
- Burning questions
- Granny in the ground
- And the Gods looked down
- Artifact dimensions
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-332) and index
- Other Format:
- Online version: Noël Hume, Ivor. Martin's Hundred.
- ISBN:
- 0394507282
- 9780394507286
- OCLC:
- 8109936
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