Part 1 — Ditches

The most significant feature determining landholdings are the ditches of the Jamestown area. During the 1954-56 explorations 63 ditches were added to the 33 previously discovered, thus increasing the opportunity to delineate property lines, many of which used to be bounded by such ditches.

Careful excavation was required to identify the fill of long-obliterated ditches once draining fields and marking property boundaries.