20 years of Jamestown Rediscovery archaeology

This is a look back at the first 20 years of the project. Many of the current crew have been involved since year one. The first shovel went into the ground on April 4th of 1994.
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[@WalterRMattfeld]

Apparently, according to this video, as late as April of 1994, some scholars thought James-Fort had been eroded away by the river and was not recoverable. Later excavations proved them wrong. I would like to see the Jamestown crew turn their attention to another, much older site, founded by Europeans, circa 1564, the French Fort Caroline, somewhere near today's Saint Johns Bluff, on the south side of the St. Johns River, east of Jacksonville. Today a scaled down replica exists of the fort for tourists to visit, but the remains of the actual fort have never been found, despite several attempts. Like Jamestown, the conventional wisdom is that the fort was eroded away by the river and is not recoverable. My own research suggests it is west of St. Johns Bluff Promontory, where today is a replica of a French Boundary stone erected by the National Park Service. Fort Caroline was captured by the Spanish in 1565 and recaptured by the French in 1568, who burned it to the ground. Eyewitness accounts mention bricks being made to construct houses from and a bread oven of bricks. Accounts have four French ships sunk in 1565 and lying on the bottom of the St. Johns River. But, to my knowledge, no one has bothered searching for them. If the subject interests you google "Mattfeld, Fort Caroline" for more info. In 2016, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, a sunken ship was found whose cannons bear the Royal Monogram of the French King Henri II, it is believed this is the French Flagship Trinity. The French Government has claimed the right to excavate the ship and the Florida courts agreed. It is not known when France will decide to excavate the remains of the ship (3 years have passed since the ship's discovery and nothing has been excavated).

[@raeraewells7053]

Here we are almost 30 years in the future

[@juliaberg5626]

Great work!

[@TheHolyMongolEmpire]

Incredible video! Thank you for all the incredibly archaeology you guys have done.

[@arclight4668]

hello from the past people

[@KevinSandersMDGoHokies]

I was just at the fort the other day and only live a few miles from it ( I am a Jamestown descendant as well ) . I would love to see a 2014-2024 update. Archeologists are still digging and surveying with ground penetrating radar as week at this moment.

[@jaydubbyuh2292]

As a child in the 1970s, that was the official version of what had happened to James fort because of piecemeal, ill-funded, and isogenic archaeological undertakings, that failed to find the footprint of the Old fort. Believe it or not even then, I find this hard to accept because of my heritage that landed and passed through Jamestown unto our communities which we have had since that time, and knowing the rivers and the Bay area and the usual and unusual places and rates of erosion, as well as the average current velocities, which all indicated that in 400 years, all of the fort had not washed into James River. After all this was James River not the Colorado River. So much for National Park Service hirings and their foolish notions.
Hats off to William kelso and all those like him who came along at the time where the funding could be scraped together and increased to permit his obedience to his passion

[@baileyrupert8735]

This is amazing, I love hearing about your discoveries!

[@baileyrupert8735]

And I would love to work for you guys!

[@twstf8905]

Awesome 👍
Edit; BTW, Dr. William Kelso (4:43) should slow down with the blonde hair color products, they're leaving him more yellow than anything else lol and his hair would look just fine if he'd simply let the grey come out fully. 🤣
(Either that, or he REALLY needs to quit smoking cigarettes 🚬 they're having an extreme staining effect on his entire head.)
(If that's what's really going on there, of course. 👍😇)