Sep 2, 2009

Search begins for Camp Security artifacts



(InYork) - Archeologist Steve Warfel examined fragments of window glass, ceramics and bone that high-school student Dante Boemio found Tuesday during a dig outside the Schultz House in Springettsbury Township.
"This is a pearlware, which is early 19th century," Warfel said. ". . . It's an English ceramic type that dates from 1790s to about 1840." ... The 19th century has been well-expressed so far in the dig, Warfel said, but he and the volunteers haven't found any pieces yet reminiscent of Camp Security, a Revolutionary War prison camp. Continued

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