Students in Shoals Marine Lab's Introductory Biology course help out with excavation at the Smuttynose Island site.
A student records notes on soil conditions at a test unit. Appledore Island, home of Shoals Marine Lab, is in the background.
Nathan Hamilton, associate professor of archaeology at the University of Southern Maine, screens contents from a test pit.
A student discovers a large fish bone in a test unit on Smuttynose Island.
This shard of Westerwald stoneware dates from the late 17th to early 18th century. The type of finish and glazes on the fragments aids researchers in dating the items and site layers.
Mix of ceramic fragments, circa 1790-1810.
Red smoking pipe bowl, early 18th century. The red clay used to make this pipe indicates that treaders from the Chesapeake or Charlestown areas visited Smuttynose.
Whale bone toothbrush, mid-19th century.
Brass thimble, mid-19th century.
1862 U.S. half dime.
Large fish premaxilla (part of upper jaw), late 18th to early 19th century.
