We’re back after a weekend off. Everyone arrived to site this morning ready to get back at things. We hauled all the equipment out of the trailer and set back up on site. Now that everyone generally knows what they are doing now, the real work begins. Here are some snapshots from the day.
Since the Snakes finished their excavation unit first for now, James switched them over to a mapping exercise. The first step is learning how to set up the digital theodolites, in particular, how to set them up level over a datum point.The Foxes cleaned up their unit in preparation to do a plan drawing of the various new contexts that have been revealed as they removed Context 1 from the unit.The Ladybugs continued working steadily on their unit. This unit has produced a fair amount of material that might tell us a bit about the people who lived in this house.A fairly substantial chunk of wall has appeared in the Foxes unit, which is pretty exciting. This might be the northeast corner of the house!
It’s fun to see what artifacts are popping up in the various layers. This one is a fragment of plate with a registry mark on it which tells us the pattern was registered in 1934.
The Bears are finally tackling the destruction layer of debris that has been pushed into their unit some point after the superstructure of the house was removed.The Snakes continuing on their mapping quest, now that they have set up the instruments, they are using them to record the location of points simulating an artifact scatter.How many Bears fit into an excavation unit? At least four! The Bears moved an enormous amount of rocks and dirt today, bravo!The Foxes spent the rest of the afternoon planning their unit. The digging is only a part of the time on a site, there is a lot of documentation and paperwork that happens before, during and after the digging part!
We made great progress today! It’s looking like tomorrow is going to be really nice weather before a couple days of steady rain, so here’s hoping we can continue to make progress.
One thought on “The dawn of week two!”
Hi. Just wanted to drop a line to say thank you, and that I really appreciate these updates. It really is interesting to watch the progress being made and share in the discoveries from all of the teams (although I’m partial to team Foxes’ discoveries). And I am learning about archeology too!
One thought on “The dawn of week two!”
Hi. Just wanted to drop a line to say thank you, and that I really appreciate these updates. It really is interesting to watch the progress being made and share in the discoveries from all of the teams (although I’m partial to team Foxes’ discoveries). And I am learning about archeology too!
Christopher Styvers