Monday, June 23, 2014

Slow Saturday Special: A Piece of Plymouth Rock

Slippery pos:

"The mystery of where Plymouth got its start; Archeologists dig deep for evidence of original palisades" by David Filipov | Globe Staff   June 21, 2014

The dig is a reminder that Plimouth Plantation, the place visited by school children, tourists, and other visitors over the years, is actually an historical recreation located 3.5 miles from the original settlement, which is in the current Plymouth center....

Plantation? Like, with slaves? In Massachusetts?

The UMass Boston survey team used ground-penetrating radar — a geophysical survey device that allowed them to avoid graves while identifying foundations of 19th-century structures that once lined School Street.... 

I hate to say it, but they did that at Treblinka and did not find mass graves.

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I decided to skim a stone across the water on this one. Sorry.