The Work Continues

Pits dug into the ground for storage or refuse disposal and artifacts found in them and elsewhere reveal goods brought into the fort and the occupants’ daily activities. Very few remains of ceramic dishes have been found, suggesting the occupants mostly ate or drank from pewter, tin, or wooden vessels. Animal bones left from meals indicate that the meat diet was primarily beef and pork, likely provided as rations, supplemented by venison hunted by the Virginia Rangers, Regiment and Militia.

Fort Ashby, West Virginia · United States