Alum, Travis Parno, quoted by The Washington Post
As written in the article, “Rare armor unearthed at site of 17th-century fort in Maryland,” https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/02/18/st-marys-fort-armor-building-discovered/, “Parno said that early in the dig the archaeologists spotted what looked like the imprint of a cellar, which they think was used for storage and later for refuse.” PDF