. >> i'm matthew reeves and i'm director of archaeology at mo montpelier. we're standing in the south yard, this is the area where the house slaves for the madisons lived and work and what we're in the middle of is an archeological investigation of this area. we first learned about the south yard through an insurance map dated to 1837. this is when dolley moves back to washington. she takes out an insurance policy on the house and part of what they need for this insurance policy is a plat showing where all the outbuildings are and we've outed this plat. this plat is incredibly important allowing us to locate the outbuildings in this area. in the 1990s we located a chimney base, a brick chimney base, that we were able to figure out from the archaeology was part of a duplex or a slave quarter, with a central chimney and a hearth on either side, so there would be two households that would live there. with that we were able to line up the insurance plat with the rest of the grounds and able to start to explore this area for other outbuildings and what we found