Excavations at the Lake Hospital and Large Slave Quarter
Deconstruction Project — January-February 2001
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
Hospital - south chimney base, facing north.
Hospital - north chimney base, interior exposed.
Large Slave Quarter - west chimney exposed.
Large Slave Quarter - dismantling west chimney.
Hospital 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).
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