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Cataloging Rosewell artifacts

Rosewell’s executive director Elizabeth Judd and assistant Abigail Peebles, from left, work on cataloging the thousands of artifacts uncovered through excavation at the Rosewell ruins. This is the first step toward providing an accurate accounting of the treasures that have been unearthed, as well as enabling the placement of them on exhibit in the Rosewell Visitors Center, a release stated. Many of the items are representative of the earliest Native American inhabitants of the area that was home to Pocahontas. Later finds date to the 18th century occupation by the colonial Page family who constructed Rosewell on the York River in Gloucester in the early 1700s. ...

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