by Ivor Noel Hume 



Excavations at 



ROSEWELL 



in Gloucester County, Virginia, 1957-1959 



In the fall of 1957 excavations were undertaken hi the 

 vicinity of the ruins of Kosewell, an 18th-century mansion 

 in Gloucester County, Virginia. The deposit, which 

 was in a trash fit, yielded artifacts that should be of 

 significant interest to archeologists and historians con- 

 cerned with the excavation of colonial sites. 



This article describes and analyzes the important 

 Kosewell finds, which have been given to the Smithsonian 

 Institution by the present oivners of the mansion. 



The Author: Ivor Noel Hume is chief archeologist 

 at Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., and an honorary 

 research associate of the Smithsonian Institution. 



John M. Graham II, vice president and curator of 

 collections, Colonial Williamsburg; J. C. Harrington, 

 chief of interpretation, Region I, U.S. National Park 

 Service; Edward P. Henderson, associate curator of 

 mineralogy and petrology, Smithsonian Institution; 

 J. Paul Hudson, U.S. National Park Service curator 

 at Jamestown, Virginia; A. Edwin Kendrew, senior 

 vice president. Colonial Williainsburg; Dr. Ben 

 McCary; Ralph Merrifield, assistant keeper, Guild- 

 hall Museum, London; Eric P. Newman; John L. 

 Pope, assistant director, Freer Gallery of Art, Wash- 

 ington; Dr. E. M. Riley, director of research, Colo- 

 nial Williamsburg; Thad Tate of the research depart- 



ment. Colonial Williamsburg; and C. Malcolm 

 Watkins, curator of cultural history, Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



I am further indebted to Mr. Mann Page and Mr. 

 and Mrs. Hugh Dabne)^ of Gloucester County, Vir- 

 ginia, for their valued assistance in tracing the gene- 

 alogy of the Page family and the history of Rosewell. 

 Finally, I wish to express my appreciation to Mr. 

 and Mrs. A. E. Kendrew for providing space in 

 their home for the initial treatinent of the artifacts, 

 and to Ann D. Parish and J. Ricks Wilson for help- 

 ing in the initial and supplementary surveys of the site. 



February 1962. I. N. H. 



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