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Excavating Clohamon's links to the New World
Historians believe that the founder of two major settlements across the Atlantic moved there from Clohamon. A new archaeological dig in the village by the Slaney may shed light on that connection. David Medcalf visited the site.
Wednesday October 07 2009
THE ROOTS OF the original European settlement of Maryland in the United States and of Newfoundland in Canada have been traced back to Clohamon, near Bunclody. Now archaeologists from the far side of the Atlantic have made the trip back east to dig in a field that was once the home of leading colonialist George Calvert. And last week they gave local schoolchildren under teacher Aisling Whitty a fascinating look at what they have been doing in a field that produced a crop of spring barley earlier this year.
