Artifacts from Burial 1

These artifacts were in the backfilled soil of the
young colonist's grave. They include fragments of Native
American ceramics from the Late Woodland period, and a
stone point. The Native American artifacts were probably
left by people at Jamestown before the English arrived.
The European artifacts in the graveshaft are a fragment
of green-glazed Border ware ceramic, and a blue glass
Nueva Cadiz bead.
All of these objects were mixed in the soil that
filled the grave shaft and not intentionally placed in
the grave itself. The artifacts give us some idea of the
time period of the burial, because they all were probably
manufactured before 1600. The date of these artifacts and
the fact that we did not find any later artifacts leads
us to conclude that the grave was filled sometime in the
earliest years of colonial settlement at Jamestown.