Gallery of Archeological Society of Maryland’s Biggs Ford Field Session

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All of the dirt is carefully sifted and its origin documented.

Sifting Boxes on Stands

Tools of the trade.

Sifting Box

Archaeology

Carefully searching.

A piece of pottery.

Taking a break.

Examining a find!

A cutting tool used by Glade Valley residents 1000 years ago.

Quartz tool fragment

Archaeologists seeking the remains of a domicile.

Removing layers of dirt to be sifted.

Sifting box

Pit from original village dating as early as 1000 A.D.

Explaining the distinguishing markings of pottery used in Glade Valley.

These pits have yielded charcoal, animal bones, corn kernels, and more.

Outlining a post of the later village’s palisade.

Sifting for artifacts.

Archaeologists making a discovery.

Dig sites in corn field along Biggs Ford Road

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