![]() Most locals now know of the place as part of Martin’s Hundred, in the neighborhood of the Kingsmill community subdivision. As the New York Times tells it in their remembrance, Hume was an “ accidental, self-taught English-born archaeologist who unearthed the earliest traces of British colonial America.” He was the director of archaeology at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation from the mid to near late 20th century, excavating 18th century Williamsburg, as well as 17th century settlements in the area, notably, Wolstenholme Towne, at the Carters Grove estate. Ivor Noël Hume, a pioneering archaeologist of colonial America, died on February 4, 2017. Ivor Noël Hume, actor turned famous archaeologist, in the filming of “Search for a Century,” a 1970s Colonial Williamsburg production. ![]()
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