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

States Newsroom · October 14, 2026

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 Cranfield, an assistant state archaeologist with the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, assured passersby Tuesday it was nothing so ghoulish…

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

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