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City of Boston Archaeology

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Official Bluesky account of the City of Boston's Archaeology Program. We celebrate Boston’s diverse history through preservation, excavation, & community engagement. www.boston.gov/archaeology

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City of Boston Archaeology@archaeology.boston.gov · 4w ago

Did you catch us on the radio last night? Project Archaeologist, Lauryn Sharp, spoke in depth about our recent excavations at the Bunker Hill monument & life as an archaeologist for the City of Boston! Thanks to our friends at @wbznewsradio.bsky.social for hosting! #Boston #archaeology #bunkerhill

Boston’s Archaeological Finds | WBZ NewsRadio 1030 | NightSide with Dan Rea

<p><strong>Bradley Jay Fills In On NightSide with Dan Rea:</strong><br><br>The ground beneath the Bunker Hill Monument is revealing long-lost stories of the American Revolution! Archaeologists have un...

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City of Boston Archaeology@archaeology.boston.gov · 4w ago

Boston residents! Help the City decide how to spend $2 million of the budget! Share your most groundbreaking ideas at participate.boston.gov 🪏

City of Boston Participatory Budgeting

Shareabouts is a mapping tool to gather crowd sourced public input. Use it to collect suggested locations and comments in a social, engaging process.

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Boston Office of Civic Organizing@civicorganizing.boston.gov · last mo.

Ideas in Action is the City’s Participatory Budgeting Initiative, where Bostonians can decide how to spend $2 million of the City’s budget. Tell us: How would you spend $2 million to benefit our communities? Share your ideas during the month of July by visiting participate.boston.gov.

Graphic with text: How would you spend 2 million to benefit our communities? Submit your ideas this July! Boston.gov/participate
City of Boston Archaeology@archaeology.boston.gov · 4w ago

Join City Archaeologist Joe on a guided walking tour of 1783 Boston as imagined by the makers of Assassin's Creed III! Favorite quote: "we've dug right where he's standing & there's no well there." Did your favorite Boston archaeological site get mentioned? 🪏 #boston #archaeology #assassinscreed

Assassin's Creed III Guided Tour: Historian Explores Revolutionary Boston (USA 250th Anniversary)

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City of Boston Archaeology@archaeology.boston.gov · 4w ago

Archaeology Magazine ✅ Smithsonian Magazine ✅ Scientific American ✅ Forgive us for geeking out, but this feels like some kind of nerd hat trick! We're thrilled and honored that our research is reaching so many people as we work to tell the hard histories and untold stories of everyday Bostonians!

250 years later, new history is uncovered from the first major battle of the American Revolution

New archaeology has uncovered everything from musket balls to wig curlers at the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill, the first major clash of the American Revolution

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City of Boston Archaeology@archaeology.boston.gov · 2mo ago

Today marks the 251st anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, one of the first & the bloodiest battles of the American Revolution. It’s also your last chance to see the excavated 1775 earthwork fortifications constructed by the provincials the night before the battle before we backfill it! (1/2)

View of an archaeological trench containing the remains of the redoubt visible in the wallAn overview of the City of Boston Archaeology excavation at the Bunker Hill Monument
City of Boston Archaeology@archaeology.boston.gov · 2mo ago

We are wrapping it up in Trench 3 today and getting ready to cheer for everyone at their naturalization ceremony here at the Bunker Hill monument! Congrats to all! Our buried 1775 surface has yielded another British and another provincial musket ball. (1/2)

Two musketballs, one smaller and one larger, in a person’s palmOverhead view of two archaeologists digging in a trench
City of Boston Archaeology@archaeology.boston.gov · 2mo ago

Breed’s Hill or Bunker Hill? The answer is…yes. Gen. Artemas Ward & the Mass. Committee of Safety ordered Cols. Richard Gridley & William Prescott to fortify Bunker Hill in Charlestown. It’s clear that Ward meant the fortifications to be built on the hill at the west end of the peninsula. 🧵(1/7)

A collage of images showing the handwritten document and an inset of the words “Bunker Hill” highlighted, and a map showing the location of the redoubt on the recreated 1775 property map.
City of Boston Archaeology@archaeology.boston.gov · 2mo ago

We’ve been so lucky to have AVAR - American Veterans Archaeological Recovery - on our crew for the excavation of the Bunker Hill redoubt! A thousand thanks to these incredibly hard workers for their professionalism, care, and commitment. And those beautiful trench walls! Come on! (1/2)

A smiling crew of archaeologists and volunteers standing in front of the Bunker Hill monument
City of Boston Archaeology@archaeology.boston.gov · 2mo ago

Trench 2 is complete! Our 18th century buried ground surface was almost a meter down, but yielded some incredible artifacts: 2 turquoise colored glass gems from a pair of sleeve buttons, a copper alloy 2-piece domed coat button, a wig/hair curler, & 2 dropped provincial musket balls! (1/2)

City of Boston Archaeology@archaeology.boston.gov · 2mo ago

Day 1 at Bunker Hill begins! We’re collaborating with the National Park Service, Friends of Boston Archaeology, & AVAR - American Veterans Archaeological Recovery - to expose the redoubt built overnight by rebel forces on June 16, 1775. (1/2)

Archaeologists excavate in front of the Bunker Hill Monument obeliskAn archaeologist excavates a trench on the lawn while other screen in the background