Fort Reed Dig
Virtual Tour
Below is a quick snapshot of the progress we made in 2007. In addition to this foundation, we uncovered a privy hole just ten feet away from the foundation, which we dug to the depth of 14 feet until we felt it was too dangerous to continue. As the artifacts were removed from the privy, they were cleaned, cataloged, and accessioned into our collection. Once complete the hold was refilled with a time capsule to let others in the future know our progress if they too, uncover this privy.
To protect the foundation we constructed a pavilion, pictured below, for protection and yet allow us to continue to excavate. Additionally, we excavated test spots around the foundation and found coins, arrowheads, pottery, bottles and other interesting items, telling the tale of this property.
CCHS would like to thank all the volunteers who helped bring this project to fruition especially Lee Funk [nicknamed Digger], who spent many hours excavating both digs and assisting our Curator in this effort. In October of 2007 we opened the dig to public participation, under the supervision of our Curator, for one weekend in celebration of Archeology Month.
Privy Dig
The privy was lined with stone walls on all four sides. The hole remained dry about ten feet down and started to fill up with water when we hit 14 feet. Artifacts removed from the privy included, bottles, pottery, bones, quill pens, toothbrushes, clay pipes, shoes, and most unusual, hair which was too long to be animal, and looked human!
