Check out the stuff from St. Mary's City, Maryland. They have excavated the
17th c. chapel there.  Some reports have been published in Historical
Archaeology, but I am not sure what has been published specifically on the
chapel excavations.
Mary Ellin D'Agostino
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At 06:20 PM 4/21/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear colleagues,
>
>I am presently working on a project in the Old Montreal, which is the
>excavation and enhancement of the remains of a chapel built in 1675,
>Notre-Dame de Bonsecours. I would like to know if any similar
>archaeological site, for the same period, have been discovered, and if the
>remains were interpreted and opened to the public. It could be anywhere in
>Canada, USA, or elsewhere.
>
>The Montreal remains consist of the stone foundations of the building, 15m
>long (45 feet) by 8m large (24 feet), with an apse. Inside the chapel, we
>found the altar foundations and what we interpret as the three steps in
>front of it (according to the catholic rite). The steps look like three
>narrow stone foundations, all the way accross the interior of the church.
>We can also clearly see the wooden floor, completed burned by the fire that
>destructed the chapel in 1754. The site is located under the actual
>Notre-Dame de Bonsecours church, wich was constructed over the previous one
>in 1771.
>
>Because my function in the archaeologists team is to look for public
>interpretation, I am particularly interested in other enhancement projects
>of such remains, which will also be the case in Montreal.
>
>Thanks for any information you can provide.
>
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>Louise Pothier, archaeologist
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