Howdy!
Our day started off calmly. Each of us is focused on
completing the units that we've started as we enter our last week.
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| Team Bakery hard at work |
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| Light Horse (Lee) and Little Foot (Tori) screening dirt from their units |
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| Boone found a molar in his unit in the barracks |
As for me, today was extremely surprising (in many ways)! As
I finished up Layer A of my unit (about 25-30 centimeters below ground
surface), I came across a wonderful artifact: a pipe stem!
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| Pipe Stem |
Pipe stems are very important in historical archaeology
sites because they can be dated fairly accurately. The pipe
stem bore (or hole) is measured to pinpoint the pipe to a certain date range.
Overtime, the size of the bore decreased. The pipe stem that I found had fairly
large bore, indicating an early date.
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| A collection of artifacts from Layer A, including a white bead, Choctaw pottery, bone, and a nail |
After I finished Layer A, I started on Layer B, which is
composed more of clay and chalk. Right before we packed up for the afternoon, I
found a musket ball! It was extremely exciting!!
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| The Musket Ball |
As we left the site, a few of the cows escaped the pasture
where they were penned. We tried to round them up, and successfully got the
female back in the pasture. However, the male, a bit too attached to my voice,
decided to charge. I won’t go into details about what went through my head at
that moment. But that cow definitely got within a foot of me before cantering
off. I just thank my lucky stars that I’m
here to write about it!
- - Elle, signing off for the last time! It’s been a
blast!!
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