The Rosewell Plantation, once the most elaborate house in colonial Virginia, was the home of the Page family and hundreds of enslaved people; it was destroyed in 1916 by a fire.

Constructed by wealthy Gloucester planter Mann Page and his son between 1725 and 1738, Rosewell originally rose from a massive 60-by-72-foot English basement and reached three stories into the air.

GLOUCESTER -- Archaeologists digging inside the towering ruins of historic Rosewell Plantation have discovered artifacts hidden within the charred debris of the fire that gutted the structure in 1916.