In a rare find, two bottles of cherries, buried for about 250 years, have been found at Mount Vernon.
By Michael E. Ruane, The Washington PostArchaeologist Tess Ostoyich carefully exposes two intact mid-18th century bottles in the Mansion cellar at George Washington’s Mount Vernon.
He summoned colleagues. They were stunned. Here was “an out-of-the-box, next level, spectacular find,” said Jason Boroughs, Mount Vernon’s principal archaeologist. Boroughs noted two other finds in Virginia of historic intact bottles containing cherries, and other fruits: one in 1966 in Williamsburg, and the other in 1981 at Thomas Jefferson’s estate, Monticello, outside Charlottesville.
Archaeological Analyst Alice Keith extracting the contents of one of the about 250-year-old bottles recently unearthed at Mount Vernon.
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