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hi I'm uninsured downer and I'm
crew chief of the Archaeological
Survey taking place in the slave
cemetery here at Mount Vernon
the goals of this project or to
locate the number of variables
that are on this ridge as well
as what their space
relationships are so in order to
locate a great shower what we
have to do is just take off the
first few layers of soil and we
don't have to go down that far
is usually about six to eight
inches and what we do at that
point is we can see the outline
of a grave shift which is a hole
that was a dog when the burial
was first intern so far we found
a total of twelve great chefs as
a result of this archaeological
survey eight of those great shot
appeared to run in a single line
down the center of this ridge
another interesting fact is that
so far all of these great shots
we found appear to be aligned
east-west so their feet are
pointing to the west there had
to the east and that's in
accordance with both some
Christian and west african
tradition so far we found
numerous prehistoric artifacts
through archaeological survey
Mount Vernon's once inhabited by
many Native Americans long
before the washingtons ever call
this place home we believe this
ridge this cemetery is now
situated on was once used as a
workshop for a work site for the
production of stone tools I
encourage you to come out to
archaeological site next time
you're visiting Mount Vernon
we're gonna be digging through
the month of October and feel
free to ask questions while
you're here