Castle Pinckney 2019: Field Trips

When not excavating at Castle Pinckney, our archaeologists and UCL archaeology students have been out and about in South Carolina. The students visited a palaeo-Indian shell ring at Botany Bay, South Carolina, USA, with a tour given by Department of Natural Resources archaeologist Larry Lane.

They also got the opportunity to visit Fort Moutrie, Charleston,  South Carolina. The fort was the site of a famous American victory over the British naval fleet during the 18th century War of Independence.

Having been forced to take cover from hurricane Dorian inland, the archaeologists took the opportunity to visit the Department of Natural Resources in Columbia, South Carolina. Here they are being shown Late Archaic Native American pottery and other finds.

Also at the Department, the students were also given a chance to learn how to use a Native American blowgun.

Both ASE archaeologists and UCL students were fortunate to be shown around the American revolutionary war battlefield of Camden, South Carolina by Dr Steven Smith, Director of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology. The undertaking of extensive excavation and metal-detecting survey has identified the firing positions and evolution of this bloody night time fight between Lord Cornwallis and General Gates' continental army.

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