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Archaeology volunteers return to Brierfield Ironworks Historical State Park to investigate the remains of a domestic structure on Furnace Branch about 400 meters upstream from the blast furnaces. These are probably the remains of house where a furnace worker and his family lived.

Tying the dig site to the archaeological grid of the park.

Opening the first two excavation units.

It’s too soon to tell how much survives of the worker house but our first day of digging suggests that we may be able to learn a great deal over the next week.  We have already identified two other houses in the immediate vicinity. One of these was a pyramidal hipped roof duplex. Also nearby was a church which is shown on a 1908 U.S. Geological Survey topographic map.

Here is a short video discussing the brick remains.

Video of brick remains of worker house.

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