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Archaeology team following clues to 1662 chapel
May, 23 2012
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Southern Maryland News
A team of archaeologists and volunteers has come tantalizingly close to locating the 1662 chapel at Newtowne Neck in St. Mary's County.
Scott Lawrence of Grave Concerns and James Gibb of Gibb Archaeology Consulting were hired by St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Compton and the Knights of Columbus to try to find the original chapel. The two already have completed an archaeological survey of the church's original cemetery.
St. Francis Xavier is celebrating the 350th anniversary of the original church chapel this year.
We've started to find an abundance of archaeological material, the Rev. Brian Sanderfoot said. We're happy and confident we're narrowing in on the location.
The current chapel dates back to 1731, but the Jesuits started a mission in Newtowne Neck in 1640, Gibb wrote in an assessment, well before the county seat of Leonardtown was established in 1708.
The archaeology team focused on the church's cemetery, which is about a half-mile north of the current chapel. The cemetery's location indicated that's where the original church once stood.
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