"The Advent's One Foundation" The Church of the Advent, like much of Back Bay and the "flat" of
Beacon Hill, stands on land formed by leveling hills in and around Boston
in the 19th century. Those loads of earth brought with them whatever
debris long-gone citizens had tossed into them over the generations.
Shells, crockery, even animal bones - all these and who knows what else
are interred in the foundations of homes and shops throughout our historic
old city. (See the Museum of Science website
on archeology of the Big Dig.) |
In late 2003, workmen arrived to dig test pits in the Advent's undercroft. (These pits help us check the water level around the pilings that hold up the building. The pilings are made of wood and must be kept permanently moist.) In the course of their excavations they found a wonderful collection of artifacts from life in Boston 150 years ago or more.
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