South Yard Fenceline

3D Model

During the 2018/2019 winter, we finished excavating the area a post and rail fence was removed from. The soil color differences in this model are not a reflection of actual soil color differences but of lighting varriation. As our photogrammetry methods are developing we are learning how to correct this. These excavations will help determine how this fence is related to the South Yard and a nearby paling fence. The fence would have visually and physically divided the Madison’s formal yard and the Stable Quarter. All the Montpelier fences determined how the enslaved community, visitors, and the Madisons worked, moved, interacted on the landscape.