May 10th 2012
All at the Flagler College Archaeology Program had a good day. It was a little cooler and we used just the trowels and did a lot of sifting. The fair skin people at Unit 1 had a tarp today so they did not burn as badly. Having been focused on the unit that my team is excavating, I wanted to talk to the teams digging other pits. We are finding some interesting items in each it.
Unit one team is Eddie Lawton and Nick Campel and Kelly Sejec was our volunteer at that site. The unit started uncovering a hearth and found a good amount of artifacts such as bone metal shell, some Native American pottery shards, ceramic, bullet casings and glass. The team also ran into a lot of coquina ad a bag covering the hearth. Unit 1 is at 1.91 meters and 20 cm down. They have been spending time cleaning the hearth. They may be at a wall.
Nick Pearce and Halee Grimes and volunteers are digging unit 2. They have found a ton of pipe stems and ceramics. (Maybe it was an old designated smoking area!) They are finding some cool ceramics too.
Untit 3 is Me (Deb Shaw) Brandy Ham and Lorenzo Deagle. We have found a lot of old nails, some ceramic and a very cool sea turtle. We believe we are in the Sabate Mionorcan level.
We are getting filthy dirty, learning how to keep things pristine and record meticulously, we are all having a wonderful time but learning so much by having a hands on real experience rather than reading a book.
Tomorrow we will wash the dirt off our finds. I have some pictures too which hopefully we can do this quickly and get it to pop in a search. The formatting and pictures will fall into place when we are more familiar with blogger.
May 10th, we spent the day washing artifacts at Deb's house.
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