In June 2016, I undertook a preliminary reconnaissance of former plantation sites on Anguilla to assess their potential for WallBlake House. This was a reconnaissance of sites that I had learned of from various publications and knowledgeable Anguillans. I surveyed 7 sites, and recorded artifacts, ruined structures and evidence of foundations. Six sites had considerable archaeological potential. However, Wallblake House is the best-preserved plantation house on Anguilla, and the estate has the potential to address a wider range of research questions than the others. The current research is focused on understanding the development of African-Anguillan culture from its origins in the boom and bust plantation economies of the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries....." Professor Paul Farnworth" 
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