Exhibit Contents

 
White Pitcher

White earthenware pitcher found at the Bard 27 archaeological site.

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Project Loc Map

The Center for Science and Computation Project Location Map.

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Bard 27
the Sands site

 

Welcome to the online exhibit for Bard 27, the Sands site.

  • About the Exhibit - The Sands site exhibit is the second digital exhibit available online. Its contents are derived from "Archaeology for the New Science and Computation Center at Bard College" (2005) by principal investigator Christopher Lindner, Ph.D., and from subsequent research in archives, at the site, and in the laboratory.

  • Start Exploring - Navigate the exhibit using the tabs on the left side of the page. View images of some of the artifacts found at the Sands site, or learn more about the site's history.

 

About Our Investigation

Bard professor Christopher Lindner directed several college students and graduates in the excavation. Cartographer Susan Winchell-Sweeney and Trevor Johnson, 2007 made the maps using GIS (Geographic Information Systems). Susan Hinkle, M.A., directed the laboratory analysis and served as editor of the documentation. Patterson Schackne, 1999 (M.S. 2005) and Paulos Ashebir, 2009 photographed the artifacts and constructed this web presentation, respectively.

Field Trip Students1 Field Trip Students2 Privy1 Privy3 Privy2 Privy4

Students from Bard course “Historical Archaeology” visit the Sands site. They view the privy at the stage when balks or test unit walls are still standing in order for the excavators to observe the stratigraphic position of layers in the southeast corner (see Map Gallery / Feature Drawings). After removal of the balks, this corner was dug to bedrock. The deeper strata in adjacent units contain whole bottles and pieces of 1871-pattern plates by Minton (see View Artifacts).