Finding a Dagger in a 400 Year Old Well at Historic Jamestowne

[@Summersky788]

No need to be embarrassed to share!! Your reaction shows your interest, respect and appreciation of the artifact and the site. Thank you for your work.

[@lanacain]

Beautiful Jamestown One of the first settlements in North America

[@rickkearn7100]

Awesome! I subscribed. Cheers.

[@maryg.249]

I didn’t know you had a live cam. I’ll check that out. No need to be embarrassed, your reaction was perfect at finding that rapier or sword! Brilliant and very exciting!! Mary

[@gl15col]

I love to see someone excited by their job, especially a job that I would love to do myself.

[@DanielAppleton-lr9eq]

Take a number. If I had an iota of I'd go there in a New York minute !

[@1CelloOne]

What a great discovery ~ I love the juxtaposition of him finding the dagger from the 1600's and seeing the cell phone on the shelf! Well done!

[@sherir4462]

OH MY GOSH THAT IS SO EXCITING!!! These episodes have gotten me through years of horrific pain from an accident. My dream is to go there one day and watch you all bring back history one artifact at a time. I have chills! Cool Beans!

[@TexasRed167]

Amazing guys! Keep up the excellent work ❤❤❤❤❤

[@DonariaRegia]

New subscriber here, I wasn't even aware of ongoing excavations. My head has been buried in overseas digs. I remember what came out of the mine shaft inside the original walls was astounding. From the looks of it, you're still finding extremely well (no pun intended) preserved remnants of our nation's origin. By the way, I was waiting for the embarrassing part in the video, but there was none. All I saw was a rather stoic moment of discovery. You are a very professional team.

[@kathymisek7497]

I was waiting for the embarassing part too. Oh, what entertains us humans. Great find, though! What fun.

[@HumanBeanbag]

Cool!

[@Mike_Greentea]

Mary Anna is the best 👍

[@simmomantua8910]

So cool

[@a.p.g.2728]

That's really exciting finding something like that. Keep up the good work.

[@PrairieDodgers]

How Exciting!

[@ChrisRubeo]

LOVE this!

[@aaronshaw6743]

cool dagger

[@clark5242]

That would have been very valuable! It will never be known why these items wound up in the well, but it is so interesting!

[@willholmes4408]

Congratulations Dave et al.. That was a great find and continued great work!

[@pedenmk]

What a great find. Wishing you the best of luck with your excavations. From western North Carolina many thanks.......

[@ellen4956]

I'd love to see it after they cleaned it up!

[@craiggleason8386]

Awesome

[@philippoole1716]

Any thoughts as to why all this stuff ended up being thrown down the well?

[@johnvandenberghe6621]

Two questions ...Is this Jamestowne located in the United States or a Jamestowne over in Europe somewhere? and are these Wells actual water wells they dug and used back in the past or are these new archaeological digs called wells because they look like one?.....

[@clark5242]

US

[@johnvandenberghe6621]

@@clark5242 Thanks... : )

[@CountryFenderBass]

Here is a dumb question..Did the owners of these items just toss them into the well? And if so why?

[@stevenjames7667]

That well was pretty deep. was the land covered with that much dirt in 400 years

[@tpobrienjr]

To put it in 1600 terms: "Wow: a dagger!"

[@e.v.squatch5835]

Nothing wrong with the joy of discovery, I'd have peed myself.....

[@Newhouse846]

Why would there be a dagger the well ?

[@billschnelzer9943]

I know I've missed something. It isn't logical that they would throw anything made of any metal away. Why so many metal artifacts in the well!?!

[@adamhuffman3354]

They had murderers back then as well! A dagger was found in that old well!

[@scottmcfarland2149]

Looks like a Scottish Dirk

[@scottgoodman8993]

A dagger. A hammer. A rapier. I saw a militay axe. A pistol. All these at the bottom of a well. It is almost as if someone (s) did not want these weapons to be found. Hmmmmmmmmm.

[@MatthewChenault]

Ah, yes, the Jamestowne holey boi.

[@kimclark8574]

I wish I were you

[@OverUnity7734]

Seems like a useful thing to throw down a well.