The excavation uncovered part of a 1775 defensive ditch, musket balls, gunflints, and artifacts left by British soldiers.
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Two months after archaeologists unearthed musket balls and remnants of a Revolutionary War fortification under the Bunker Hill Monument grounds in Charlestown, researchers say the completed excavation has revealed new details about the battlefield and the soldiers who occupied it.
The City of Boston Archaeology Program announced the findings this week following excavations on the southwest and northwest portions of the monument grounds, project archaeologist Lauryn Sharp wrote in the Charlestown Patriot-Bridge.…