Over the summer of 2019, Hunter Research, in partnership with the Monmouth University Department of History and Anthropology, with funding support from NJM Insurance, and on behalf of the Trent House Association, organized a highly successful and productive archaeology field school on the grounds of the William Trent House in the heart of historic Trenton. Undergraduate students working for credit and hand-picked volunteers from NJM Insurance learned the craft of archaeological excavation and documentation on one of the richest sites in the Delaware Valley. A trove of Native American, European Contact period and early historic artifacts were recovered from a four-foot-deep sequence of deposits in front of the house and on the site of the adjoining mid-18th-century kitchen wing. Visitors came from near and far to learn of the fascinating discoveries made. Plans are afoot to mount a second season of the field school in 2020.
