Archaeology at Somerset Place

Excavations at the Plantation Hospital and Large Slave Quarter

Deconstruction Project — January-February 2001

archaeologists working at Somerset Place

Archaeologists and conservators remove scabs (cypress planks) from beneath the brick chimney base on the north end of the hospital site. (Photos by Carl Burke, Somerset staff)

Further Excavations — March 2001

exposed base of hospital north chimney — Hospital - south chimney base, facing north.

exposed north chimney base — Hospital - north chimney base, interior exposed.

exposed west chimney of the Large Slave Quarter — Large Slave Quarter - west chimney exposed.

exposed bricks of a hospital pier — Hospital Pier.

archaeologists dismantling the west chimney of the Large Slave Quarter — Large Slave Quarter - dismantling west chimney.

exposed brick of Large Slave Quarter Pier — Large Slave Quarter Pier.

Source: Steen, Carl. Further Excavations at the Hospital and Large Slave Quarter: Somerset Place State Historic Site (Columbia, S.C.: Diachronic Research Foundation, March 2001).