Topic ID #8525 - posted 9/4/2010 4:49 AM
Jennifer Palmer
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Archeologists work to unearth piece of War of 1812 battle
Jennifer Palmer
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Sunken ship may contain piece of Bladensburg history
Archeologists work to unearth piece of War of 1812 battle
by Daniel Leaderman | Staff Writer
A piece of Bladensburg history may rise again after lying at the bottom of the Patuxent River for 200 years.
Over the next two years, archeologists will work near Upper Marlboro to excavate the wreck of a ship believed to be the USS Scorpion, part of an American flotilla that clashed with the British Navy just prior to the Battle of Bladensburg in the War of 1812, to coincide with the war's upcoming bicentennial.
"It represents a time capsule of what a War of 1812 ship would have looked like," said Richard Ervin, an archeologist with the State Highway Administration, which is conducting the excavation in partnership with the Navy and the Maryland Historical Trust.
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Archeologists work to unearth piece of War of 1812 battle
by Daniel Leaderman | Staff Writer
A piece of Bladensburg history may rise again after lying at the bottom of the Patuxent River for 200 years.
Over the next two years, archeologists will work near Upper Marlboro to excavate the wreck of a ship believed to be the USS Scorpion, part of an American flotilla that clashed with the British Navy just prior to the Battle of Bladensburg in the War of 1812, to coincide with the war's upcoming bicentennial.
"It represents a time capsule of what a War of 1812 ship would have looked like," said Richard Ervin, an archeologist with the State Highway Administration, which is conducting the excavation in partnership with the Navy and the Maryland Historical Trust.
Read the rest here.
Post ID#18219 - replied 9/28/2010 3:39 PM
334Arch
Neat --- one of my greatest finds was a uniform button stamped US 1812 nearby a fort in central Alabama. That FS also contained a broken pipe stem and a Minie ball.
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