Unearthing North Carolina’s past while planning for its newest monument

By: Clayton Henkel

Outlets: North Carolina Newsline

Published: October 14, 2026

Words: 748

Last Updated: 3 days, 11 hours ago

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At first glance, you might mistake the freshly dug hole on the State Capitol grounds in Raleigh for a shallow grave, especially so close to Halloween. But David Cranford, an assistant state archaeologist with the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, assured passersby Tuesday it was nothing so ghoulish.

Cranford and a team from the North Carolina Office of State Archaeology were looking for any archaeological material under a small parcel of the capitol grounds …

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