A Comment on the Windsor Site, Jamaica
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2562954 |
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| Authors | C S Cotter (International University of the Caribbean, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1954 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 173-174 |
| Publication date | 1954-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/277573 |
| OpenAlex | W2326899415 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
In Marian DeWolf's recent interesting article on Jamaica archaeology she refers to an earthwork and trench as Windsor Fort, built by the British in 1803 (DeWolf 1953: 236), citing Cundall (1915) as her authority. Actually Cundall mentions the fort but makes no attempt to suggest that its site was on Windsor Hill, which trench has always been known as Spanish Fort. From my local research, Fort Windsor was built on the sea shore, 1000 yards north of the hill, where up to a few years ago stone foundations still existed.The Windsor Hill site presents one of the most curious mysteries of the north coast, and in 1951 I excavated the hole with a view to a solution and moved and sifted about three tons of earth which had been thrown in during the early part of the 19th century
Archaeology · Cartography · Earthworks · Geography · Shore · Trench · Windsor · Yard · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · Geology · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Oceanography
| Highly cited | No |
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