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VCU news

By Brian McNeill

Eleanor Mudd, a senior anthropology major at Virginia Commonwealth University, is using a trowel to scrape the top layer of her 5-feet-by-5-feet square of dirt, when she spots a couple of tiny artifacts.

"Oh, hey! I think I found an animal bone," Mudd tells her partner, senior anthropology major Josiah Hunt. "And here's another piece of that plate."

Mudd and Hunt are among a number of VCU students taking part in the summer course Anthropology 375: Field Archaeology, an archaeological dig at Ferry Farm, a site near Fredericksburg that was George Washington's boyhood home from 1738 to 1754.

"History is the one main reason why I got into archaeology," Hunt said. "I've always been interested in history. Being a part of discovering things and being able to pick up artifacts and hold them in your hand, it can be really cool to be a part of that."

As part of the field school, the students are learning proper archaeological techniques as they find and identify artifacts – which have so far included wig curlers from Washington's era, Civil War bullets and American Indian projectile points dating back 5,000 years.

"They're learning the physical methods for doing archaeology – how to properly use a shovel, how to properly use a trowel. An

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Belle Grove Plantation Bed and Breakfast

Ferry Farm – Childhood Home of George Washington

Yesterday had to be one of the most exciting days I have spent in my research of Belle Grove Plantation. I had been invited to a picnic by the King George Historic Society earlier in the month. Being that it is about 2.5 hours from our current home, I decided to take a half day and do some running around in the county while I was there.

Recently I had come across another blog on WordPress by an anthropology student doing her field study at Ferry Farm. Ferry Farm is located in Fredericksburg, Virginia and was the childhood home of George Washington. Recently they had uncovered the foundation of the house on the property and had been doing archaeological digs there. In her blog, Ashley talks about the artifacts she has found during her digs. This caught my interest in many ways.

Ashley – Ferry Farm

First they are digging on a property that is very close to our plantation, just about 20 minutes away. And it was a childhood home of one of the founding fathers. With all the artifacts I have been finding on our plantation, I decided to email her and see if she could help me identify some of the artifacts and also give me some suggestion on what we could do to preserve the