Thursday, August 06, 2009

ARCHAEOLOGY CHRONICLES 17

today i was switched back to Maguire's Opera House. i am excavating the same unit that i was working on before moving up to Barbary Coast. So we finished paperwork and such for level 4 and began level 5. the dirt here is tough and hard packed. it took us 5 hours of excavation to go down 5 cm. of course this was partially due to the fact that the side wall were an absolute mess and most of my concentration and muscle was concentrated on that. we found a whole bottle today. it was pretty cool. we also found several bottle fragments. tomorrow we will attempt to finish level 5.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is surprising to me that there would be anything BUT bottle fragments. I thought you were fantasizing when you said it would be neat to find one that's whole.
M

Anonymous said...

there are a whole bunch of whole bottles in our lab.