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ARC hears detailed progress report on downtown Fort Marcy/excavation area; large historic bone pit and root cellar exposed
Summary
Staff and contractors reported continued mechanical and hand excavation at a downtown Santa Fe site near Fort Marcy; investigators exposed a deep historic refuse/bone pit, ponding clays with later historic deposits, and a probable root cellar with juniper timbers, prompting further targeted investigation and reporting requirements.
City staff and site archaeologists briefed the Archaeological Review Committee on March 27 about work at a large downtown excavation (the project tied to Fort Marcy area exposures and adjacent city parcels). The update described extensive mechanical stripping and hand excavation across a deep, ponded‑clay deposit and reported several significant finds: a deep, mechanically cut refuse/bone pit containing thousands of butchered bone fragments and numerous historic artifacts; a trenching pattern that indicates 19th‑century historic refuse deposition; surface features including post holes and chinking with painted (polychrome) pottery fragments; and a previously unrecorded…
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