Index 113 Papers 52-54 On Archeology CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY: PAPER 52 EXCAVATIONS AT CLAY BANK IN GLOUCESTER COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 1962-1963 _Ivor Noël Hume_ HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 4 ARCHEOLOGICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL EVIDENCE 8 METHOD OF EXCAVATION 10 ARCHEOLOGICAL STRATIGRAPHY 11 THE ARTIFACTS 12 CONCLUSIONS 14 [Illustration: Figure 1.--DETAIL FROM AUGUSTINE HERMAN'S MAP OF VIRGINIA which was published in 1673.] _Ivor Noël Hume_ Excavations at CLAY BANK in Gloucester County, Virginia, 1962-1963 _This paper describes and analyzes artifacts recovered from the Jenkins site at Clay Bank, Gloucester County, Virginia. The building which overlay the excavated cellar hole does not appear on any known map. Among the number of interesting objects recovered was a large stem and foot from an elaborate drinking glass or candlestick of fine quality English lead metal. It was found in association with crude earthenwares, worn out tools, and broken and reused clay tobacco pipes, suggesting that this material was derived from various sources._ THE AUTHOR: _Ivor Noël Hume is director of archeology at Colonial Williamsburg and an honorary research associate of the Smithsonian Institution._ Early in January 1962 a brick foundation was discovered at Clay Bank in Gloucester County following the removal of a walnut tree beside the residence of Mr. William F. Jenkins. The tree was of no great antiquity but the foundation beneath it was thought by Mr. Jenkins to be worthy of archeological examination. The author, therefore, visited the site late in the same month and found that the brick footings were certainly of colonial date. From the small collection of ceramics and other artifacts also exposed by the tree, there was reason to suppose that the building had ceased to exist late in the 17th or perhaps early in the 18th century.