Mount Independence

Take a look at some of the artifacts found in archaeological investigations over the years at Mount Independence and discusses how they are identified. How do we know what they are?

Take a look at some of the construction-related artifacts found in archaeological investigations over the years at Mount Independence--spades, a pick-axe or mattock, spikes, and even a chest hinge.

Take a look at a British 40th Regiment of Foot button found years ago at the Mount Independence State Historic Site. What can a button tell us--or not?

Take a look at smoking pipes and some of the pipe fragments found from the Revolutionary War period in archaeological investigations over the years at the Mount Independence State Historic Site.

Take a look at some of the axe heads found in archaeological investigations over the years at Mount Independence. What were they used for and how were they made?

Take a look at some of the foodways-related artifacts in the archaeological collection at the Mount Independence State Historic Site. What are these interesting fragments and what do they tell us about the lives of the soldiers?

Take a look at the foodways of rations and beef. What can be revealed about the lives and diets of the soldiers by studying beef bones from Revolutionary War times that were uncovered in archaeological investigations over the years at the Mount Independence State Historic Site?

Take a look at the subject of pork through the pig bones found in archaeological investigations over the years at the Mount Independence State Historic Site.

Take a look at some Revolutionary War era bones of wild animals and fishing equipment found in archaeological investigations over the years at the Mount Independence State Historic Site. Did the soldiers hunt and fish, even though they were ordered not to (and why were they ordered not to)?

Take a look at remains of tin canteens found in archaeological investigations over the years at the Mount Independence State Historic Site. How do we know these fragments are likely from canteens?

Take a look at the story of wine and wine bottles through examination of some of the many fragments of wine bottles found in archaeological investigations over the years at the Mount Independence State Historic Site.

Take a look at some of the historic bird bones found during archaeological investigations over the years at the Mount Independence State Historic Site. Might one or more of these bones be from passenger pigeons? He talks about passenger pigeons and feeding the troops.

Take a look at the subject of bayonets and some of the fragments found in archaeological investigations over the years at Mount Independence. What stories can be extracted from these artifacts and how do they help our understanding of the soldiers who carried them?

??Take a look at musket balls found in archaeological investigations over the years at the Mount Independence State Historic Site. Why so many sizes? Where were they cast? What did the soldiers do with the balls after they were made?

Take a look at some of the musket-related artifacts found in archaeological investigations over the years at Mount Independence. What are these interesting fragments and how would they have been used?

Take a look at some of the gunflints found in archaeological investigations over the years at the Mount Independence State Historic Site. Where did the gunflints originally come from, what were they used for and how, and why are there many colors and shapes?