today we went to town on level 6. ok ok ok so first off we excavated Feature 15. that metal hoop. it was not easy because the metal was very fragile. i got it out with small tools. an icepick and a small trowel. i dared not use the regular sized trowels. the hoop broke in many pieces as i excavated it, but i was able to several good sized ones and one big one. underneath the dirt in the middle were several bits of wood. the metal and the wood were taken directly to the lab so they would not be destroyed further. i took the dirt within the circle of the hoop down 10 cm and stopped there for now. we will later take it down further to make sure there isn't anything else associated with it. ok so my partner took the south end down 10 cm to see how many artifacts to expect in level 6. he did not find much. but we took down most of the rest of the level and found lots and lots of milled wood, a big ol' bone (cow elbow), and a large flat piece of metal with wood underneath (attached?) we left most of the wood and the metal thing because it was the end of the day and painted on with a small paintbrush some B-72 liquid stuff (i do not know exactly what it is) this stuff helps strengthen the wood and metal so it will not fall apart so much when we excavate it. we are working faster than what is ideal because we are running out of time. we only have tomorrow left to excavate.
2 comments:
Aww! You broke it! Shame, shame. Naughty, naughty.
So things are winding down to the end. Are you going to miss all the excitement?
I cannot imagine how wood would ever hold up buried in the dirt -- maybe because here it is so wet, I would suppose the wood would just rot. I did not think about the metal being fragile. Interesting.
MW
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