Some artifacts from the excavations at Fort Necessity. (Left to right): 3 gun flints; iron ball for swivel gun; brass fastener, possibly from tinder box; clay pipe stems; 2 lead musket balls; brass tip of sword scabbard. Plan of the 1754 stockade as it was uncovered during the 1953 excavations. Cross section through entrenchments. Pieces of bark and tree roots found in the footing trench, dug for the reconstruction of the stockade in 1932, were erroneously interpreted as remnants of the original stockade. (Fill against the 1932 reconstructed stockade is not shown.) Plan of Fort Necessity, reconstructed from documentary and archaeological evidence.