kelso mentioned the important date when lord delaware turned back the colonists who were evacuating the failed colony at jamestown. and he -- lord delaware had actually landed at fort algernon on point comfort which is today's fort monroe, which has just become a national monument. my question is to what extent dr. kelso feels that any investigation by the national park service where ft. algernon and later ft. george was, would maybe possibly reveal some of the great findings that he's had at jamestown. >> well, i don't want to say anyone that it couldn't be found, you know, the actual site, because it's there somewhere. i got to study that. and the area where the fort was first built, algernon, it was sort of on a sandy spit. all this has been built up over the years. and exactly where at ft. lenore you can find it and then, of course, the construction that is going on at ft. monroe has just been astounding. to build the fort and all the buildings and to bring landfill in and so on. it would be complicated, but it's not impossible. i'd be the last one to say it's impossible to find the

and ordered to turn around the long boat belonged to lord delawar and announced his arrival. and so all the colonists came back and reoccupied james fort. these ceramics were made in the period from about 1619 until about 1625. they were made by thomas ward. he came to jamestown in 1619. we have historical documentation for that. in and his kiln site was found here in the 1950s by john cotter on the national park service property, and these are some of this products that i'm trying to do minimum object counts. i do shard counts, that is i count all the fragments of this pottery type and i also do minimum object counts. and i do that by isolating rims and bases that belong together. and i can tell from looking at these the different vessels that are represented in this layer from the well. this layer d. we've got milk pans represented. and a jug here with a nice little spread foot. a little turned up on the end there. very well made. a little drinking cup here. very thin. the fabric is identifiable because it is chalky and buff colored. it's james river clay. you can see there

settlement, had not at that very moment a new supply group come in, the real resident governor, lord delaware came in with over 100 troops, and they jump-started the operation. and from that point, the colony is going to make it. okay. that's thumbnail history, the earliest years. the reason i'm sticking to the earliest years, most of what we found archaeologically dates to that period, and that seminole event has been a really important thing for our understanding what we found beneath the ground. so if you'll follow me down here, i'll show you where we started and why. a lot of people wonder. where do you start digging? is it >>> when i first came to jamestown, i was so excited because i just read in a footnote in a history book in ohio, where i'm from, that there was a jamestown. mostly american history, the modern american history, the part that is the european offshoot of american history, begins at plymouth. and the whole story, and we have the thanksgiving and everything. and it's reinforced every year that that's where everything begins. but there was this place in 1607, not 1620, suc