“…Therefore, it stands to reason, based upon John Hallowes's historical context and the artifacts contained within the features, that the bastions were probably constructed right after the house was finished and removed shortly after Hallowes's death, probably around 1666 when David Anderson moved to in the Chesapeake and methods for identifying and excavating this type of structure had not been fully developed. While other 17th-century fortified settlements have been uncovered in the Chesapeake, the form of this particular fortified house is without equivalents, making it wholly unique from an archaeological perspective (Hatch, Heath, and McMillan [2014]).…”