Archaeologists Uncover 1 Colonial Redoubt at Bunker Hill as 250th Anniversary Spurs New Digs

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 29

Bunker Hill archaeologists who began digging in June say they have identified the long-lost colonial redoubt, a hand-built dirt fort from the June 17, 1775 battle.
Artifacts from the Boston site — two English gun flints, one French gun flint and two musket balls — are helping pinpoint where fighting unfolded and filling gaps left even after the monument was built.
Camden Battlefield in South Carolina is yielding a different kind of evidence: veteran-led archaeologists used GPS and intensive metal-detector surveys to map troop positions from the August 1780 battle through each musket ball recovered.
Other Revolutionary War sites are still producing finds ahead of the nation's 250th birthday, including five militia-fired musket balls at Minute Man National Historical Park and 1776-77 barracks at Colonial Williamsburg that once held 2,000 soldiers.