Anthropomorphic clay tobacco pipes, also sometimes called figural pipes or face pipes, were a popular type of commemorative souvenir in the nineteenth century. Pipe manufacturers often made pipes depicting the […]

By Sara Griggs and Ashley Pickard This week we field students opened Sites A and B; they are potential slave quarter sites with a possible sub-floor pit.

By: Kendell Porter and Andrea Zona Though Monday morning started off rainy, we were able to get out into the field every day this week. We were all very excited […]

Imagine that you have a small mountain of puzzle pieces in front of you of all shapes, sizes, and colors. You don’t know how many puzzles are represented by the […]

Why is our teapot spinning?!

By Marissa Sarver and Alex Covert On Monday the field school began working in the Archaeology lab due to rain. We learned how to clean artifacts and also how to […]

Week 1 By: Nathanael Kreimeyer and Helena Gray On Monday, the students of Poplar Forest Field School began the excavations searching for the precise location of Thomas Jefferson’s Vegetable Garden. […]

Welcome to Poplar Forest’s Department of Archaeology and Landscapes new blog. Here you will find news and updates on one of our current major projects: the Wing Re-analysis. The main […]

Two of the major questions archaeologists attempt to answer when cataloguing artifacts is the identity of the manufacturer and when an object was made. This can be very difficult or […]

Every artifact that is analyzed and catalogued as a part of the Wing Re-analysis project adds something to our knowledge about life at Poplar Forest through the ages.  The individual […]

To celebrate Halloween we present some spooky-looking glass artifacts from the Wing collection. These images aren’t from a mad scientist’s laboratory…just a regular laboratory. The glass photographed below are all […]