LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) - A New York community college’s archaeology program will return to a Colonial-era battlefield in the southern Adirondacks for the third consecutive summer.
SUNY Adirondack will hold its summer field school at the state-owned Lake George Battlefield Park during three two-week sessions starting July 5 and running through Aug. 12.
The college-sponsored digs led by archaeologist David Starbuck were first held in the park in the summers of 2000 and 2001, then returned in 2014.
The excavations conducted by students and volunteers have uncovered thousands of Colonial artifacts and portions of a stone fort started by the British during the French and Indian War but never completed.
The site near Lake George’s southern end was the scene of heavy military activating starting in 1755 and ending 25 years later during the American Revolution.
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