Welcome to the start of our second week of field school. Our diggers are now familiar with all the main tasks that they need to learn as archaeologists, and now comes practice, practice, practice! We cycled people through many different tasks today: some learned how to plan the well, some took over surveying, some finished their maps, some continued excavation, and some went back and forth!
Our midden extension being dug is looking good, they finally cleared off the last of the overburden and were ready to start the next context down. We are finding more artifacts in this layer finally, which is a nice change from shovelling off sterile overburden from the site! We are hoping that this area of the site will give us some more domestic context artifacts that can tell us about the people who lived in the log cabin on this little farmstead. So far we have found some nails, many different decorated ceramic sherds, and a bit of window and bottle glass.
We have also moved a huge amount of earth today in homing in on the drain and rubble feature we last uncovered in 2023. It was really great to see a mucky hole in the ground turning back into a proper excavation unit.
I didn’t take many pictures because I was running hither and yon between the excavations and other activity stations, but here are some shots from today. Tomorrow, the weather isn’t looking the best, but hopefully it will only be a bit of drizzle in the morning and we can spend a good full day in the field.
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