The College Park crew joined the dig on Wednesday, we will continue to work until next Wednesday when the Baltimore crew joins us again. This week has been really hot, but we are working within feature A which is partially shaded by a tree. Charlotte continues to scrape in unit 3 along the North and East side of the foundation wall. Tim and Paul have started a new unit inside the West portion of the wall. I continue to work in unit 4 and 4 extended, which includes the South side of the wall, and a new feature. The new feature is another wall about 3 feet from the south wall, which had rocks that were filled in between. The portion that gets dug and sifted for artifacts is a very small area. It's about 6 inches wide and 2 meters long. We have to dig out a large area for us to work in, in order to reach that small area. That area was previously dug by archaeologists and contains fill, so it won't be sifted. When we dig down until our arm no longer reaches, we have to dig out an area for us to sit. There is a lot of digging required just to reach the small area that we want to be in, but it is all worth it in the end. We have found lots of pottery shards, part of a pipe, glass, metal, and animal bones.
-Tahitia Morin, 2010 Field School student
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