US dig finds Revolutionary War prison camp where British soldiers were kept

Jane C Skinner and Samantha Muscella excavate post holes at the bottom of a stockade trench (John Crawmer via AP)

Archaeologists say they have solved a decades-old riddle by finding the remnants of a prison camp that housed British soldiers in York, Pennsylvania, for nearly two years during the American Revolutionary War.

The location of Camp Security was thought to have been on land acquired by the local government nearly a decade ago.