Digging for Evidence at Gallows Hill

Amazing Tales from Off and On Connecticut‘s Beaten Path

When a team of archeologists found burned rocks, burned bones, broken rum bottles, old nails, and musket balls at a site in western CT, they knew they had found a winter encampment for Revolutionary War soldiers – a place where two Patriot soldiers had been executed for desertion during the winter of 1778-79. They also had uncovered evidence of how the other 1,000 soldiers survived that winter. Hear the intriguing and meticulous way that Western Connecticut State University Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Dr. Laurie Weinstein and her team uncovered these 250-year-old secrets.