Figure 1 Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
archaeologist Danny Schmidt excavating a breastplate from the top of an
early seventeenth-
century brick-lined well at Jamestown, Virginia. The well was full of military
and domestic iron objects. Sherds of an early Westerwald stoneware jug depicting
the biblical story of the Prodigal Son were found scattered throughout the
well. (Courtesy, Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.)