The Anne Arundel County Archaeology Lab holds more than 3.1 Million artifacts in its curation facility. Here is an opportunity to explore the collection and view some of the most exciting finds that have been made over the past 40 years. Each artifact can tell a unique story- so begin your exploration of the County’s
River Farm and the Pig Point Complex Archaeologists spent the summers of 2015, 2016, and 2017 digging at the River Farm site, located one mile away from Pig Point on the Jug Bay portion of the Patuxent River. The 2015 and 2016 field seasons were sponsored by federal Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Fund grants and
Maryland was home to the first successful settlement of the Society of Friends in the colonies. George Fox, an Englishman, came up with a doctrine of faith in 1652 that he called the Religious Society of Friends, and its first tenet was that everyone can commune with God, and thus there is no need for
The Lost Towns Project conducted an extensive archaeological survey of the suspected site of the town of Herrington in 2001. Perhaps the second oldest settlement in the County, historical research along with several diagnostic artifacts indicate that Herrington not only;y survives, but may date as early as the 1650s. The 100-acre survey project centered on an area
Providence, the first European settlement in Anne Arundel County, was established on the shores of the Severn River and Whitehall Bay in March of 1649. It was settled by a group of about 300 non-conformist Puritans. These pioneers came to the shores of Anne Arundel County at the invitation of the Catholic Lord Baltimore. They established