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WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA—Post holes and a pit suggest that a structure with a cellar was built into an outside wall of James Fort sometime after 1608, when the three-sided fort was expanded to five sides. Mary Anna Richardson, a staff archaeologist with Preservation Virginia, thinks the cellar was used between 1610 and 1620, but the excavation team is still removing layers of trash from the post-James Fort period and has not yet reached the occupation layer. The Williamsburg Yorktown Daily reports that a small copper jetton, or sixteenth-century counting tool, has been found among the debris, along with fragments of a wine bottle. To read about the "Starving Time" the colonists endured, see "Chilling Discovery at Jamestown."
