On November 1st, the ASNJ Gloucester County Chapter presents Mr. Wade Catts, Archaeologist and President of South River Heritage Consulting. Wade will be updating us on the progress of the Hessian Soldier discovery of 2022 and the recent summer digs this year at the Red Bank Battlefield!
The meeting is being held on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 7pm at RiverWinds. The venue is located at 1000 RiverWinds Dr, West Deptford, NJ 08086
Open to the Public - Free Admission
Photograph by Allison Gall
Decorative copper alloy plate to a Revolutionary War-era ammunition cartridge box associated with the Fusilier Regiment Erbprinz showing the crowned lion of Hess. This artifact was likely part of a decorative plate on a Hessian artillery cartridge box from the Fusilier Regiment Erbprinz and was found in a well at an 18th-century farmstead in Manalapan, New Jersey near Monmouth Battlefield. While no skirmishes were reported on the site, the Battle of Monmouth was fought in 1778 roughly one mile northeast of the site and it may have been collected by one of the site occupants as a battle souvenir.