Another week, another rain day. This time, at least we had enough artifacts to warrant a day of washing. We also had a visit from the college videographer...so stay tuned for a slick trailer for next year's class.
On site, we closed up our 2x2 meter unit into the trash pile and backfilled. We're a little more than halfway through the field season, so we're opening up a couple of smaller units, which will be the last.
More interesting stuff popped out this week. In the photos, you can see one of the, at least two gunflints recovered.
We also continued to find lots of buttons. They all haven't been cleaned yet, but there seem to be a decent diversity of button types coming out of the units. In the image, there's a hard rubber, shank backed button with a 5x5 dot matrix as a design. Next to that button is what really appears to be one of these
federal buttons.
Also, more porcelain doll parts were found in the same area as the heads...a leg (see in image in this post) and a couple of shoulder pieces (not yet washed or pictured).
On Wednesday, crew Dyana-mo also found what initially appeared to be a watch face. It was a small circular disc with a 1 and 2 with clock hands visible through what appeared to be a very clouded transparent cover. That evening, I did very initial research into wristwatch introduction and popularity and was unhappy with its clear 20th century timing. That just didn't fit with most of the other diagnostic artifacts at the site. But, a little more careful inspection of the piece revealed that the clocks hands were pained on a fragment of paper along with the numbers. Also, the transparent cover wasn't nearly as clouded as I had thought. Instead, the paper depicting the clock face was simply close to completely deteriorated.
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| Numbers and clocks hands are difficult to see |
In keeping with the doll theme, I'm betting it's a
dollhouse clock.
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